Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Brothers, sentence 2

In one of these houses strange things were brewing over the glowing coals on the open hearth; there was a boiling going on in glasses, and a mixing and distilling, while herbs were being cut up and pounded in mortars.

Who acts: strange things, boiling, mixing · What happens: brew, glow, be, go on, distil, cut up · To what, where: houses, glowing coals, glasses, herbs, mortars

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange things, boiling, mixing), 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	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 was	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 houses	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 houses	det
5	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
6	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 brewing	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 brewing	aux
9	brewing	brew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 houses	acl:relcl
10	over	over	ADP	_	13 coals	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 coals	det
12	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 coals	amod
13	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 brewing	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 hearth	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hearth	det
16	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hearth	amod
17	hearth	hearth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 coals	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 was	expl
20	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 boiling	det
22	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 was	nsubj
23	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 boiling	acl
24	on	on	ADP	_	23 going	compound:prt
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 glasses	case
26	glasses	glass	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 going	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 mixing	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 mixing	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 mixing	det
30	mixing	mixing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 was	nsubj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 distilling	cc
32	distilling	distil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 mixing	acl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 cut	punct
34	while	while	SCONJ	_	38 cut	mark
35	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 cut	nsubj:pass
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 cut	aux:pass
37	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 cut	aux:pass
38	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 distilling	parataxis
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 cut	compound:prt
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 pounded	cc
41	pounded	pound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 cut	conj
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 mortars	case
43	mortars	mortar	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 pounded	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	brew	past · progressive	strange things	this houses not said here	the glowing coals on the open hearth		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product
2	glow	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be	past	a boiling		there	in one of this houses	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in one=Location
4	go on	gerund	a boiling not said here		glasses		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in glass=Location
5	distil	gerund	a mixing not said here				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent
6	cut up	past · passive		herbs			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
7	pound	participle			mortars		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in mortar=Trajectory

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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