Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 81

The silk dresses rustled, the leather repeated its rhyme, and the old chairs had the gout in their backs, and cried, "Creak;" it was all exactly like the first time; for in that house, one day and one hour were just like another. "

Who acts: silk, leather, old chairs · What happens: dress, rustle, repeat, have, cry, be · To what, where: rhyme, gout, backs, Creak

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 (silk, leather, old chairs), 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 silk	det
2	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dresses	nsubj
3	dresses	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rustled	rustle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dresses	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 repeated	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 leather	det
7	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 repeated	nsubj
8	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dresses	parataxis
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 rhyme	nmod:poss
10	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 repeated	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 chairs	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 chairs	amod
15	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 repeated	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gout	det
18	gout	gout	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 backs	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 backs	nmod:poss
21	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 gout	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cried	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cried	cc
24	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 had	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Creak	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Creak	punct
27	Creak	creak	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cried	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 time	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 time	punct
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 time	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 time	cop
32	all	all	ADV	_	33 exactly	advmod
33	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	37 time	advmod
34	like	like	ADP	_	37 time	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 time	det
36	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	37 time	amod
37	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dresses	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 house	punct
39	for	for	ADP	_	42 house	case
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 house	case
41	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 house	det
42	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dresses	parataxis
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 day	punct
44	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 day	nummod
45	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 another	nsubj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 hour	cc
47	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 hour	nummod
48	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 day	conj
49	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 another	cop
50	just	just	ADV	_	52 another	advmod
51	like	like	ADP	_	52 another	case
52	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	42 house	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 house	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 house	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	present	the silk					tree rules
2	rustle	participle	the silk not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	repeat	past	the leather	leather's rhyme				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Eventuality
4	have	past	the old chairs	the gout	Chairs's backs			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gout=Patient
5	cry speech: express	past	the old chairs not said here	Creak				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	silk			like the first time	exactly property	tree rules
7	rhyme		leather					nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: 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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