Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 53

Part of this garden was laid out quite in the style of the old days, with stiff green hedges; you walked as if between green walls with peep-holes in them.

Who acts: you · What happens: lay out, walk · To what, where: Part, style

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 (you), 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	Part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laid	nsubj:pass
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 garden	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 garden	det
4	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Part	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laid	aux:pass
6	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 laid	compound:prt
8	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 laid	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 style	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 style	det
11	style	style	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laid	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 days	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 days	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 days	amod
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 style	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hedges	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 hedges	case
18	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hedges	amod
19	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hedges	amod
20	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 laid	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 walked	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 walked	nsubj
23	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laid	parataxis
24	as	as	ADP	_	28 walls	case
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 walls	mark
26	between	between	ADP	_	28 walls	case
27	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 walls	amod
28	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 walked	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 holes	case
30	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 holes	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 peep	punct
32	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 walls	nmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 holes	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay out	past · passive		Part of this garden		the style of the old days			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in style=Destination
2	walk	past	you					as green walls with peep holes in holes	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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