Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 10

Round the windows elephants and dromedaries were carved, all from the old times; but the old Count loved the new time best, and what it brought, whether it came from the first floor, or from the cellar, or from the attic.

Who acts: old Count, more · What happens: carve, love, bring, come · To what, where: elephants, best, first floor

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Count, more), 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	Round	round	ADP	_	3 windows	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 windows	det
3	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 carved	obl
4	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 carved	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dromedaries	cc
6	dromedaries	dromedary	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 elephants	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 carved	aux:pass
8	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 all	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 carved	conj
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 times	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 times	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 times	amod
14	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 all	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 loved	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 loved	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Count	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Count	amod
19	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 loved	nsubj
20	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 carved	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 time	det
22	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 time	amod
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 loved	obj
24	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 loved	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 what	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 what	cc
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 carved	obl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 brought	nsubj
29	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 what	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 came	punct
31	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	33 came	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 came	nsubj
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 carved	conj
34	from	from	ADP	_	37 floor	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 floor	det
36	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	37 floor	amod
37	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 cellar	punct
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 cellar	cc
40	from	from	ADP	_	42 cellar	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 cellar	det
42	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 attic	punct
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	47 attic	cc
45	from	from	ADP	_	47 attic	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 attic	det
47	attic	attic	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 cellar	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 carved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	past · passive		elephants and dromedaries			round the windows	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	love	past	the old Count	best		time		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
3	bring	past	more					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	more		the first floor		from the cellar or the attic	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from floor=Initial_Location from cellar=Destination

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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