Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 42

The eating-house keeper's bill of fare, which had hung at his door in a heavy frame, was posted by the storm over the entrance to the theatre, where nobody went. "

Who acts: storm, nobody, house keeper · What happens: hang, post, go, bill · To what, where: fare, door, bill, entrance

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 (storm, nobody, house keeper), 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	5 keeper	det
2	eating	eating	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 house	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 eating	punct
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeper	compound
5	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bill	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 keeper	case
7	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 posted	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 fare	case
9	fare	fare	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bill	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hung	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 hung	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hung	aux
13	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fare	acl:relcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 door	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 door	nmod:poss
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hung	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 frame	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 frame	det
19	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 frame	amod
20	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hung	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bill	punct
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 posted	aux:pass
23	posted	post	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 storm	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 storm	det
26	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 posted	obl
27	over	over	ADP	_	29 entrance	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 entrance	det
29	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 posted	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 theatre	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 theatre	det
32	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 entrance	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 went	punct
34	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 went	advmod
35	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	36 went	nsubj
36	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 theatre	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 posted	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 posted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	past · perfect · passive		fare	man's door	in a heavy frame	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at door=Destination
2	post	past · passive	the storm	the house keeper's bill of fare	the entrance to the theatre		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	go	past	nobody				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	bill		the house keeper	fare			nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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