Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 5

In each house was a little window, so that any one could step across the gutter from one window to the other.

Who acts: one · What happens: be, step · To what, where: little window, house, gutter

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 house	case
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 window	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 window	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 window	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 window	amod
7	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 step	punct
9	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 step	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 so	fixed
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 step	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 step	aux
14	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 window	conj
15	across	across	ADP	_	17 gutter	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gutter	det
17	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 step	obl
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 window	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 window	nummod
20	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 step	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 other	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 other	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 step	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 window	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a little window		each house			tree rules
2	step	could	any one			the gutter		from one window; to the other	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to other=Destination

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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