Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 140

A damp mist hung over the town; not a person was to be seen in the streets; the street-doors around were marked with crosses, as a sign that the plague was within, or that all the inmates were dead.

Who acts: damp mist, inmates · What happens: hang, see, mark, be · To what, where: street doors, town, person, streets

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (damp mist, inmates), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mist	det
2	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mist	amod
3	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	nsubj
4	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 town	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 town	det
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 seen	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 person	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 person	det
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seen	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seen	aux:pass
13	to	to	PART	_	15 seen	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 seen	aux:pass
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hung	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 streets	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 streets	det
18	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 seen	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 doors	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 doors	det
21	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 doors	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 street	punct
23	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hung	obl
24	around	around	ADP	_	26 marked	mark
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 marked	aux:pass
26	marked	mark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 doors	acl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 crosses	case
28	crosses	cross	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 marked	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sign	punct
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 sign	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 sign	det
32	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 doors	appos
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 within	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 plague	det
35	plague	plague	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 within	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 within	cop
37	within	within	ADP	_	32 sign	acl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 dead	punct
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 dead	cc
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 dead	mark
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 inmates	det:predet
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 inmates	det
43	inmates	inmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 dead	nsubj
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 dead	cop
45	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hung	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	past	a damp mist	the street doors	the town		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over town=Location
2	see	past · passive		a person	the streets		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	mark	past · passive		the street doors not said here		with crosses	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: with cross=Theme
4	is	past	all inmates			dead property	tree rules

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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