Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 6

The other houses in the street were new and well built, with large window panes and smooth walls.

Who acts: other houses · What happens: be, build

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 (other 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 houses	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 houses	amod
3	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 new	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 street	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 street	det
6	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 houses	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 new	cop
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 built	cc
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 built	advmod
11	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 new	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 panes	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 panes	case
14	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 panes	amod
15	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 panes	compound
16	panes	pane	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 built	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 walls	cc
18	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 walls	amod
19	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 panes	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 new	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the other houses in the street					new property	tree rules
2	build	participle	the other houses in the street not said here					with large window panes and smooth walls; well property	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent with pane=Source

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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