Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 15

He would sit and look at the wall from which the plaster had in some places fallen off, and fancy all sorts of scenes which had been in former times.

Who acts: house, plaster, scenes · What happens: sit, look, have, fall off, fancy, be · To what, where: wall, places, sorts, scenes

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 (house, plaster, scenes), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sit	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sit	aux
3	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 look	cc
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sit	conj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 wall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wall	det
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 had	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 plaster	det
12	plaster	plaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wall	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 places	case
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 places	det
16	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obl
17	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 places	acl
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 fallen	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fancy	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fancy	cc
21	fancy	fancy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sit	conj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 sorts	det
23	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fancy	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 scenes	case
25	scenes	scene	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sorts	nmod
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 times	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 times	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 times	cop
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 times	case
30	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 times	amod
31	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 scenes	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	would	house					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	infinitive	house not said here				at the wall	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at wall=Theme
3	have	past	the plaster		the wall		in some places	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	fall off	participle		some places not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	fancy	infinitive	house not said here	all sorts of scenes				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus
6	is	past · perfect	scenes			in former times		tree rules
7	sort			scenes				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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