Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 97

He touched the walls, which opened wide apart, and she saw the organ which was pealing forth; she saw the pictures of the old pastors and their wives, and the congregation sitting in the polished chairs and singing from their hymn-books.

Who acts: God, walls, branch, organ, congregation · What happens: touch, open, see, peal, sit, polish · To what, where: walls, organ, pictures, polished chairs, hymn books

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, walls, branch, organ), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 touched	nsubj
2	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 walls	det
4	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 touched	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 opened	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 opened	nsubj
7	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walls	acl:relcl
8	wide	wide	ADV	_	9 apart	advmod
9	apart	apart	ADV	_	7 opened	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 opened	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 organ	det
15	organ	organ	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 pealing	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 pealing	aux
18	pealing	peal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 organ	acl:relcl
19	forth	forth	ADV	_	18 pealing	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 saw	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 touched	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pictures	det
24	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 saw	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 pastors	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 pastors	det
27	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 pastors	amod
28	pastors	pastor	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 pictures	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 wives	cc
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wives	nmod:poss
31	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 pastors	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 congregation	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 congregation	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 congregation	det
35	congregation	congregation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 touched	parataxis
36	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 congregation	acl
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 chairs	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 chairs	det
39	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 chairs	amod
40	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 sitting	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 singing	cc
42	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 sitting	conj
43	from	from	ADP	_	47 books	case
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 books	nmod:poss
45	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 books	compound
46	-	-	PUNCT	_	45 hymn	punct
47	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 singing	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	touch	past	God	the walls			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Co-Theme
2	open	past	the walls			apart property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	branch	the organ			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer organ=Stimulus
4	peal	past · progressive	the organ			forth property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	past	branch	the pictures of the old pastors and pictures's wives			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer picture=Stimulus
6	sit	gerund	the congregation not said here		the polished chairs		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
7	polish	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
8	sing speech: express	gerund	the congregation not said here		pictures's hymn books		vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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