Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 160

The house door was not locked--it opened, and he went into a room with a brick floor, where a bench, with a great coverlet of leather, formed the chief article of furniture.

Who acts: knapsack, man · What happens: not lock, open, go, form, article · To what, where: house door, room, chief article, furniture

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 (knapsack, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 door	compound
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 locked	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 locked	aux:pass
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 locked	advmod
6	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 opened	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 opened	nsubj
9	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 locked	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 opened	conj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 room	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 room	det
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 floor	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 floor	det
19	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 floor	compound
20	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bench	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 bench	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 bench	det
24	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 floor	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 coverlet	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 coverlet	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 coverlet	det
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 coverlet	amod
29	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 leather	case
31	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 coverlet	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 formed	punct
33	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 opened	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 article	det
35	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 article	amod
36	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 formed	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 furniture	case
38	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 article	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 locked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not lock	past · passive		the house door			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	open	past	knapsack				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past	man		a room	with a brick floor and a bench; with a great coverlet of leather	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
4	form	past	knapsack not said here	the chief article of furniture			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location article=Theme
5	article			furniture			nom article «communication transitive»: of=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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