Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 120

From the street could be seen the room in which the walls were covered with leather, ragged and torn, and the green in the balcony hung straggling over the beams; they pulled it down quickly, for it looked ready to fall, and at last it was cleared away altogether. "

Who acts: green, walls, leather · What happens: see, cover, rag, tear, hang, straggle · To what, where: room, street, walls, beams, leather, last

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (green, walls, leather), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 street	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 street	det
3	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seen	obl
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 seen	aux:pass
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seen	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 covered	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 walls	det
12	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 covered	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 covered	aux:pass
14	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 room	acl:relcl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 leather	case
16	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 covered	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ragged	punct
18	ragged	rag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 covered	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 torn	cc
20	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 ragged	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 green	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 green	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 green	det
24	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 hung	nsubj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 balcony	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 balcony	det
27	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 green	obl
28	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	parataxis
29	straggling	straggle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 hung	xcomp
30	over	over	ADP	_	32 beams	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 beams	det
32	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 straggling	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 pulled	punct
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 pulled	nsubj
35	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 hung	parataxis
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 pulled	obj
37	down	down	ADP	_	35 pulled	compound:prt
38	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	35 pulled	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 looked	punct
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	42 looked	mark
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 looked	nsubj
42	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 pulled	conj
43	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 looked	xcomp
44	to	to	PART	_	45 fall	mark
45	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 ready	xcomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 cleared	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 cleared	cc
48	at	at	ADP	_	49 last	case
49	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 cleared	obl
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 cleared	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 cleared	aux:pass
52	cleared	clear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 hung	conj
53	away	away	ADV	_	52 cleared	advmod
54	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	52 cleared	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	could · passive		the room	the street		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: room=Stimulus
2	cover	past · passive		the walls		with leather; in the room	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in which=Theme
3	rag	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	tear	participle					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hang	past	the green				tree rules
6	straggle	gerund	the green not said here		the beams		vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over beam=Location
7	pull down	past	walls = wall	leather		quickly property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	look	past	leather			ready property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
9	fall	to-infinitive	leather not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	clear away	past · passive		leather	last	altogether, away property	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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