Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 69

His workshop was quite close to one of the old stone bridges, near to a water-mill, round which the roaring stream rushed and foamed always, yet restrained by the neighboring houses, whose old, decayed balconies hung over, and seemed ready to fall into the water.

Who acts: workshop, roaring stream · What happens: be, roar, rush, foam, restrain, decay · To what, where: one, water mill, balconies, water

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 (workshop, roaring stream), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 workshop	nmod:poss
2	workshop	workshop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 close	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 close	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 close	advmod
5	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 close	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 bridges	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bridges	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bridges	amod
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bridges	compound
12	bridges	bridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mill	punct
14	near	near	ADP	_	19 mill	case
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 mill	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mill	det
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mill	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 water	punct
19	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bridges	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 round	punct
21	round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mill	conj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 rushed	obj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stream	det
24	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 stream	amod
25	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rushed	nsubj
26	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 mill	acl:relcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 foamed	cc
28	foamed	foam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 rushed	conj
29	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	28 foamed	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 restrained	punct
31	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	32 restrained	cc
32	restrained	restrain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 close	conj
33	by	by	ADP	_	36 houses	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 houses	det
35	neighboring	neighboring	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 houses	compound
36	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 restrained	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 old	punct
38	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	39 old	nmod:poss
39	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 houses	amod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 decayed	punct
41	decayed	decay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 restrained	conj
42	balconies	balcony	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 decayed	obj
43	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 balconies	acl
44	over	over	ADV	_	43 hung	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 seemed	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 seemed	cc
47	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 decayed	parataxis
48	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 seemed	xcomp
49	to	to	PART	_	50 fall	mark
50	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 ready	xcomp
51	into	into	ADP	_	53 water	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 water	det
53	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 fall	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 close	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Knud's workshop		one of the old stone bridges	close property	tree rules
2	roar	gerund					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rush	past	the roaring stream	a water mill and round			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Trajectory
4	foam	past	the roaring stream not said here			always property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	restrain	participle	Knud's workshop not said here			by the neighboring houses	vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer
6	decay	past	Knud's workshop not said here	balconies			tree rules
7	hang over	participle		balconies not said here		over property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	seem	past				ready property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
9	fall	to-infinitive				into the water result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result

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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