Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 139

"Delightful indeed," cried a voice quite near to them; no one but the tin soldier saw that it came from a rag of the leather which hung in tatters; it had lost all its gilding, and looked like wet earth, but it had an opinion, and it spoke it thus:--

Who acts: voice, one, leather · What happens: cry, see, come, hang, lose, look · To what, where: rag, tatters, voice, opinion · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (voice, one, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Delightful	punct
2	Delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cried	parataxis
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 Delightful	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 voice	det
8	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 near	advmod
10	near	near	ADV	_	6 cried	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 near	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	nsubj
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 soldier	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 soldier	det
18	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 soldier	compound
19	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 one	conj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 came	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 saw	ccomp
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 rag	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 rag	det
26	rag	rag	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 leather	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 leather	det
29	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rag	nmod
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 hung	nsubj
31	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 leather	acl:relcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 tatters	case
33	tatters	tatter	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 hung	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 lost	punct
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 lost	nsubj:pass
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 lost	aux
37	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cried	conj
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 gilding	det:predet
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 gilding	nmod:poss
40	gilding	gilding	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lost	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 looked	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 looked	cc
43	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
44	like	like	ADP	_	46 earth	case
45	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 earth	amod
46	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 looked	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 had	punct
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 had	cc
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 had	nsubj
50	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	parataxis
51	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 opinion	det
52	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 had	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 spoke	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 spoke	cc
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 spoke	nsubj
56	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 had	conj
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 spoke	obj
58	thus	thus	ADV	_	56 spoke	advmod
59	:	:	PUNCT	_	60 --	punct
60	--	--	PUNCT	_	6 cried	conj

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	a voice			near property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	past	no one but the tin soldier				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	come	past	voice		a rag of the leather		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from rag=Initial_Location
4	hang	past	the leather		tatters		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tatter=Location
5	lose	past · perfect · passive		voice			tree rules
6	look	past	a voice not said here			like wet earth	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	have	past	voice	a opinion			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient
8	speak speech: other	past	voice	opinion		thus property	tree rules

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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