Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 5

The walls of the house are sloping, and the windows are low, and only one of the latter is made to open.

Who acts: walls, windows, one · What happens: slope, be, make, open · To what, where: one

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls, windows, one), 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 walls	det
2	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sloping	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 house	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walls	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sloping	aux
7	sloping	slope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 low	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 low	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 windows	det
11	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 low	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 low	cop
13	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sloping	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 one	advmod
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 made	nsubj:pass
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 latter	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 latter	det
20	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 one	nmod
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 made	aux:pass
22	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sloping	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 open	mark
24	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 made	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sloping	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	slope	present · progressive	the walls of the house			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the windows		low property	tree rules
3	make	present · passive		one of the latter		tree rules
4	open	to-infinitive	one of the latter not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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