Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 122

Very shortly, a fine new house was built farther back from the road; it had lofty windows and smooth walls, but in front, on the spot where the old house really stood, a little garden was planted, and wild vines grew up over the neighboring walls; in front of the garden were large iron railings and a great gate, which looked very stately.

Who acts: road, old house, wild vines, large iron railings · What happens: build, have, stand, plant, grow up, be · To what, where: fine new house, road, lofty windows, front, old house, neighboring walls

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 (road, old house, wild vines, large iron railings), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 shortly	advmod
2	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	9 built	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 shortly	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 house	det
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 house	amod
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 house	amod
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 built	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 built	aux:pass
9	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 back	advmod
11	back	back	ADV	_	9 built	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 road	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 road	det
14	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 built	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 built	parataxis
18	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 windows	amod
19	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 had	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 walls	cc
21	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 walls	amod
22	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 windows	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 front	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 front	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 front	case
26	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 spot	punct
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 spot	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 spot	det
30	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obl
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	42 planted	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 house	det
33	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 house	amod
34	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 planted	nsubj:pass
35	really	really	ADV	_	36 stood	advmod
36	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 house	acl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 garden	punct
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 garden	det
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 garden	amod
40	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 house	conj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 planted	aux:pass
42	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 spot	acl:relcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 grew	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 grew	cc
45	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 vines	amod
46	vines	vine	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 grew	nsubj
47	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 had	conj
48	up	up	ADP	_	47 grew	compound:prt
49	over	over	ADP	_	52 walls	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 walls	det
51	neighboring	neighboring	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 walls	compound
52	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 grew	obl
53	;	;	PUNCT	_	62 railings	punct
54	in	in	ADP	_	55 front	case
55	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 railings	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 garden	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 garden	det
58	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 front	nmod
59	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 railings	cop
60	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 railings	amod
61	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 railings	amod
62	railings	railing	NOUN	Number=Plur	69 looked	nsubj
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 gate	cc
64	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	66 gate	det
65	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 gate	amod
66	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 railings	conj
67	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 looked	punct
68	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	69 looked	nsubj
69	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 built	parataxis
70	very	very	ADV	_	71 stately	advmod
71	stately	stately	ADV	_	69 looked	advmod
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	build	past · passive		a fine new house	the road	shortly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from road=Material
2	have	past	road	lofty windows and smooth walls	front	on the spot	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient
3	stand	past	the old house and a little garden not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	plant	past · passive		the old house and a little garden			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	grow up	past	wild vines		the neighboring walls		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wall=Location
6	is a	past		large iron railings and a great gate	front of the garden		tree rules
7	look	past	large iron railings and a great gate			stately property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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