Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 8

Perhaps they thought, "How long will that heap of rubbish remain here to be a disgrace to the whole street.

Who acts: walls, heap · What happens: think, remain, be · To what, where: disgrace · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (walls, heap), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	3 thought	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 remain	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 remain	punct
6	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 long	advmod
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 remain	advmod
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 remain	aux
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 heap	det
10	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 remain	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 rubbish	case
12	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heap	nmod
13	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 remain	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	18 disgrace	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 disgrace	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 disgrace	det
18	disgrace	disgrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 remain	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 street	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 street	det
21	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 street	amod
22	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 disgrace	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	walls = wall			perhaps property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	remain in a quote	future	that heap of rubbish		here	long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a in a quote	to-infinitive	that heap of rubbish not said here	a disgrace		to the whole street	tree rules

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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