Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 38

The old mansion was repaired and painted, the ditches were cleaned and fruit-trees planted; all was homely and pleasant, and the floors were as white and shining as a pasteboard.

Who acts: all, floors · What happens: repair, paint, clean, plant, be, shine · To what, where: old mansion, ditches, fruit trees

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, floors), 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 mansion	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mansion	amod
3	mansion	mansion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 repaired	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 repaired	aux:pass
5	repaired	repair	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 painted	cc
7	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 repaired	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cleaned	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ditches	det
10	ditches	ditch	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cleaned	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cleaned	aux:pass
12	cleaned	clean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 repaired	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 trees	cc
14	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 trees	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 fruit	punct
16	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cleaned	obj
17	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 trees	acl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 pleasant	punct
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 pleasant	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 pleasant	cop
21	homely	homely	ADV	_	23 pleasant	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pleasant	cc
23	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 repaired	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 white	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 white	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 floors	det
27	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 white	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 white	cop
29	as	as	ADP	_	30 white	case
30	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pleasant	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 shining	cc
32	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 white	conj
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 pasteboard	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 pasteboard	det
35	pasteboard	pasteboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shining	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 repaired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	repair	past · passive		the old mansion		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	paint	participle				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	clean	past · passive		the ditches		vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary tree=Patient
4	plant	participle		fruit trees not said here		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	all		homely, pleasant property	tree rules
6	is	past	the floors		white property	tree rules
7	shine	gerund	the floors not said here		as a pasteboard	vn light_emission-43.1 «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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