Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 32

There were large holes and long cracks, out of which grew grass and leaves, indeed the whole balcony, the courtyard, and the walls were so overgrown with green that they looked like a garden.

Who acts: large holes, walls · What happens: be, grow, overgrow, look · To what, where: grass, walls

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 (large holes, walls), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 holes	amod
4	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cracks	cc
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cracks	amod
7	cracks	crack	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 holes	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct
9	out	out	ADP	_	11 which	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 grew	nsubj
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	parataxis
13	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grew	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 leaves	cc
15	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grass	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 balcony	punct
17	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	20 balcony	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 balcony	det
19	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 balcony	amod
20	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grass	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 courtyard	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 courtyard	det
23	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 grass	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 overgrown	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 overgrown	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 walls	det
27	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 overgrown	nsubj:pass
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 overgrown	aux:pass
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 overgrown	advmod
30	overgrown	overgrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 grew	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 green	case
32	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 overgrown	obl
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 looked	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 looked	nsubj
35	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 overgrown	advcl
36	like	like	ADP	_	38 garden	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 garden	det
38	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 looked	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	large holes and long cracks		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past		grass and leaves and the whole balcony and the courtyard			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grass=Theme
3	overgrow	past · passive		the walls		with green	tree rules
4	look	past	walls = wall			like a garden	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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