Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 38

A shield with a dried salt fish painted on it flew exactly in front of the door of a house where dwelt a man who wrote a newspaper.

Who acts: shield, man · What happens: dry, paint, fly, dwell, write · To what, where: dried salt fish, shield, front, man, newspaper

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shield, man), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shield	det
2	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flew	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	7 fish	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fish	det
5	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 fish	amod
6	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fish	compound
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shield	nmod
8	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 fish	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 painted	obl
11	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	11 flew	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 front	case
14	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flew	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 door	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 door	det
17	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 front	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 house	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 house	det
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 door	nmod
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 dwelt	advmod
22	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 house	acl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dwelt	obj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 wrote	nsubj
26	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 man	acl:relcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 newspaper	det
28	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wrote	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dry	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	paint	participle		a dried salt fish not said here	shield		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination
3	fly	past	a shield with a dried salt fish		front of the door of a house	exactly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location
4	dwell	participle		a man			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
5	write	past	a man	a newspaper			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newspaper=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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