Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 4

The houses of the narrow street in which he lived were so lofty that the sun shone upon them from morning till evening, and it became quite unbearable.

Who acts: man, houses, sun, house · What happens: live, be, shine, become · To what, where: narrow street

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, houses, sun, house), 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 houses	det
2	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lofty	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 street	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 street	det
5	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 street	amod
6	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 houses	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lived	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lived	nsubj
10	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 street	acl:relcl
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lofty	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 lofty	advmod
13	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 shone	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sun	det
16	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shone	nsubj
17	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lofty	advcl
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 shone	obl
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 morning	case
21	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shone	obl
22	till	till	ADP	_	23 evening	case
23	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shone	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 became	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 became	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 became	nsubj
27	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lofty	conj
28	quite	quite	ADV	_	29 unbearable	advmod
29	unbearable	unbearable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 became	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 lofty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	man	the narrow street			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location
2	is	past	the houses of the narrow street			lofty property	tree rules
3	shine	past	the sun		evening; morning	upon people	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location
4	become	past	house			unbearable property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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