Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 63

The old moat round the town had been converted into a number of little kitchen gardens; but the high walls, with their heavy-looking towers, are still standing.

Who acts: high walls · What happens: convert, look, stand · To what, where: old moat, number

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (high walls), 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	3 moat	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moat	amod
3	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 converted	nsubj:pass
4	round	round	ADP	_	6 town	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moat	nmod
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 converted	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 converted	aux:pass
9	converted	convert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 number	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 number	det
12	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 converted	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 gardens	case
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gardens	amod
15	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gardens	compound
16	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 number	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 standing	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 standing	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 walls	det
20	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 walls	amod
21	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 standing	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 towers	punct
23	with	with	ADP	_	28 towers	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 towers	nmod:poss
25	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 looking	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 heavy	punct
27	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 towers	amod
28	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 walls	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 walls	punct
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 standing	aux
31	still	still	ADV	_	32 standing	advmod
32	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 converted	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 converted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	convert	past · perfect · passive		the old moat round the town		into a number of little kitchen gardens result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into number=Result
2	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	stand	present · progressive	the high walls and walls's looking towers		still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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