Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 27

The brassy knobs on the railings shone more brightly than ever, as if they had been polished on account of his visit; and on the door were carved trumpeters standing in tulips, and it seemed as if they were blowing with all their might, their cheeks were so puffed out. "

Who acts: brassy knobs, trumpeters, it, knobs, attendant · What happens: shine, polish, carve, stand, seem, blow · To what, where: knobs, account, trumpeters, door, tulips, cheeks

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 (brassy knobs, trumpeters, it, knobs), 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	3 knobs	det
2	brassy	brassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knobs	amod
3	knobs	knob	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shone	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 railings	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 railings	det
6	railings	railing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 knobs	nmod
7	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 brightly	advmod
9	brightly	brightly	ADV	_	7 shone	advmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 ever	case
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 brightly	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 polished	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 polished	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 polished	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 polished	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 polished	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 polished	aux:pass
18	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 shone	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 account	case
20	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 polished	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 visit	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 visit	nmod:poss
23	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 account	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 carved	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 carved	cc
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 door	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 door	det
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carved	obl
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 carved	aux:pass
30	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 shone	parataxis
31	trumpeters	trumpeter	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 carved	obj
32	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 trumpeters	acl
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 tulips	case
34	tulips	tulip	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 standing	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 seemed	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 seemed	cc
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 seemed	nsubj
38	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 carved	conj
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 blowing	mark
40	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 blowing	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 blowing	nsubj
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 blowing	aux
43	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	53 puffed	advcl
44	with	with	SCONJ	_	47 might	mark
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	47 might	det:predet
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 might	nmod:poss
47	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 blowing	advcl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 blowing	punct
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 cheeks	nmod:poss
50	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 puffed	nsubj:pass
51	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 puffed	aux:pass
52	so	so	ADV	_	53 puffed	advmod
53	puffed	puff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 seemed	xcomp
54	out	out	ADP	_	53 puffed	compound:prt
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 shone	punct
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the brassy knobs on the railings			brightly property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	polish a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		knobs = knob	account of attendant's visit		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
3	carve	past · passive		trumpeters	the door		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: trumpeter=Theme on door=Destination
4	stand	gerund	trumpeters not said here		tulips		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tulip=Location
5	seem	past	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	blow	past · progressive	knobs = knob				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
7	puff out	past · passive		knobs's cheeks			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source
8	account			attendant's visit			nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient
9	visit		attendant				nom visit «act 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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