Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 81

It is quite true that they dwelt in a cellar, two yards deep in the earth, and they had to cross a stone passage to get to their room, but within it was warm and comfortable and strips of list had been nailed round the door.

Who acts: service, people · What happens: be, dwell, have, cross, get, nail · To what, where: cellar, two yards, earth, stone passage, strips

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (service, people), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 true	advmod
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 dwelt	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dwelt	nsubj
7	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 true	advcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 cellar	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cellar	det
10	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dwelt	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 deep	punct
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 yards	nummod
13	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 deep	obl:unmarked
14	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 true	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 earth	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 earth	det
17	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 deep	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 true	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 cross	mark
23	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 had	xcomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 passage	det
25	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 passage	compound
26	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cross	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 get	mark
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 passage	acl
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 room	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 room	nmod:poss
31	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 get	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 warm	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 warm	cc
34	within	within	ADP	_	37 warm	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 warm	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 warm	cop
37	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 had	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 comfortable	cc
39	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 warm	conj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 nailed	cc
41	strips	strip	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 nailed	nsubj:pass
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 list	case
43	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 strips	nmod
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 nailed	aux
45	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 nailed	aux:pass
46	nailed	nail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 warm	conj
47	round	round	ADP	_	49 door	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 door	det
49	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 nailed	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	service			true property	tree rules
2	dwell	past	people		a cellar		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cellar=Location
3	be		service not said here	two yards	the earth		tree rules
4	have	past	people				tree rules
5	cross	to-infinitive	people not said here	a stone passage			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=Patient
6	get	to-infinitive	people not said here	a stone passage not said here		to people's room result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to room=Result
7	is	past	service			warm property	tree rules
8	be		service not said here				tree rules
9	nail	past · perfect · passive		strips of list		round the door	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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