Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 2

The date of its erection had been carved on one of the beams, and surrounded by scrolls formed of tulips and hop-tendrils; by this date it could be seen that the old house was nearly three hundred years old.

Who acts: date, old house · What happens: carve, surround, form, see, be, erect · To what, where: date, scrolls

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 (date, old house), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 date	det
2	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carved	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 erection	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 erection	nmod:poss
5	erection	erection	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 date	nmod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 carved	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 carved	aux:pass
8	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 carved	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 beams	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 beams	det
13	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 one	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 surrounded	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 surrounded	cc
16	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 carved	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 scrolls	case
18	scrolls	scroll	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 surrounded	obl:agent
19	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 scrolls	acl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 tulips	case
21	tulips	tulip	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 formed	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tendrils	cc
23	hop	hop	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tendrils	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 hop	punct
25	tendrils	tendril	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 tulips	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 seen	punct
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 date	case
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 date	det
29	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seen	obl
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seen	nsubj:pass
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 seen	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 seen	aux:pass
33	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 carved	conj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 old	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 house	det
36	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 house	amod
37	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 old	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 old	cop
39	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	41 hundred	advmod
40	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 hundred	compound
41	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 years	nummod
42	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 old	obl:unmarked
43	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 seen	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 carved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	carve	past · perfect · passive		the date of date's erection		on one of the beams	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on one=Destination
2	surround	participle					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	form	participle		scrolls not said here		of tulips and hop tendrils	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	could · passive	this date	date			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
5	is	past	the old house		year	old property	tree rules
6	erect		date				nom erection «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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