Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 83

There was no fence, for indeed there was nothing to fence in except the long rows of fishes which were hung upon lines, one above the other, to dry in the wind.

Who acts: fence, nothing · What happens: be, hang, dry · To what, where: fishes, lines, wind

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fence, nothing), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 fence	det
4	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 was	punct
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 was	mark
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	9 was	advmod
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 was	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fence	mark
12	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nothing	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 rows	case
14	except	except	ADP	_	17 rows	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rows	det
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rows	amod
17	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fence	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 fishes	case
19	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 rows	nmod
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 hung	nsubj:pass
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hung	aux:pass
22	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 fishes	acl:relcl
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 lines	case
24	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hung	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 one	punct
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 nothing	appos
27	above	above	ADP	_	29 other	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 other	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 one	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 dry	punct
31	to	to	PART	_	32 dry	mark
32	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 wind	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wind	det
35	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dry	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	no fence		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	past	nothing		there	indeed property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hang	past · passive		fishes	lines		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon line=Destination
4	dry	to-infinitive			the wind		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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