Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 16

How the street must have looked when the houses had all gable roofs, open staircases, and gutters with dragons at the spout.

Who acts: houses · What happens: look, have · To what, where: street, gable roofs, spout

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 (houses), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 looked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 street	det
3	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 looked	nsubj:pass
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 looked	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 looked	aux
6	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 had	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 houses	det
9	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 looked	advcl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 roofs	det
12	gable	gable	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 roofs	compound
13	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 staircases	punct
15	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 staircases	amod
16	staircases	staircase	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 roofs	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gutters	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gutters	cc
19	gutters	gutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 roofs	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 dragons	case
21	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 gutters	nmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 spout	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 spout	det
24	spout	spout	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	must · perfect · passive		the street					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
2	have	past	the houses	all gable roofs and open staircases and gutters with dragons		the spout			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=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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