Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 108

It was easy to see that this church had been built entirely of wood, hewn out and wonderfully put together; every story looked as if it had rockers, like a cradle.

Who acts: church · What happens: be, see, build, hewn out, put together, look · To what, where: church, wood, story, rockers

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (church), 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	3 easy	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 easy	cop
3	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 easy	xcomp
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 built	mark
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 church	det
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 built	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 built	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 built	aux:pass
11	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 see	advcl
12	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	14 wood	advmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 wood	case
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 built	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hewn	punct
16	hewn	hewn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 wood	acl
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 hewn	compound:prt
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 put	cc
19	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	20 put	advmod
20	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hewn	conj
21	together	together	ADV	_	20 put	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 story	punct
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 story	det
24	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 easy	parataxis
25	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 story	acl
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 had	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 had	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 looked	advcl
30	rockers	rocker	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 had	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cradle	punct
32	like	like	ADP	_	34 cradle	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 cradle	det
34	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rockers	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 easy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			easy property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	build	past · perfect · passive		this church		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary wood=Product
4	hewn out	participle		wood not said here		tree rules
5	put together	infinitive			together, wonderfully property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
6	look	participle		every story not said here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	have	past	church	rockers and a cradle		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rocker=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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