Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 5

The portraits of the old citizens became alive, stepped down from the walls against which they had hung for centuries, and took seats near the church door.

Who acts: portraits · What happens: become, step down, hang, take, portray · To what, where: walls, portraits, seats, church door, old citizens

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (portraits), 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	2 portraits	det
2	portraits	portrait	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 became	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 citizens	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 citizens	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 citizens	amod
6	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 portraits	nmod
7	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 became	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stepped	punct
10	stepped	step	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 became	xcomp
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 stepped	compound:prt
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 walls	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 walls	det
14	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stepped	obl
15	against	against	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 hung	obl
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hung	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hung	aux
19	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 walls	acl:relcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 centuries	case
21	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hung	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 took	cc
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 became	conj
25	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 took	obj
26	near	near	ADP	_	29 door	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 door	det
28	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 door	compound
29	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the portraits of the old citizens				alive property	tree rules
2	step down	participle	the portraits of the old citizens not said here		the walls			vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hang	past · perfect · passive		portraits = portrait	the walls	century		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme against which=Destination
4	take	past	the portraits of the old citizens not said here	seats	the church door			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme
5	portray			the old citizens				nom portrait «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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