Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 4

But the castle was obliged to be pulled down, and the stone was used again for the walls of a new mansion on another spot--the baronial residence of Borreby, which still stands near the coast.

Who acts: Borreby · What happens: oblige, pull down, use, stand · To what, where: castle, stone, coast

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Borreby), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 obliged	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 castle	det
3	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 obliged	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 obliged	aux:pass
5	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 pulled	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 pulled	aux:pass
8	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 obliged	advcl
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 pulled	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 used	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 used	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stone	det
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 used	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 used	aux:pass
15	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 pulled	conj
16	again	again	ADV	_	15 used	advmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 walls	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 walls	det
19	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 used	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 mansion	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 mansion	det
22	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mansion	amod
23	mansion	mansion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 walls	nmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 spot	case
25	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	26 spot	det
26	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mansion	nmod
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 residence	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 residence	det
29	baronial	baronial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 residence	amod
30	residence	residence	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mansion	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Borreby	case
32	Borreby	Borreby	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 residence	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 stands	punct
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 stands	nsubj
35	still	still	ADV	_	36 stands	advmod
36	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 Borreby	acl:relcl
37	near	near	ADP	_	39 coast	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 coast	det
39	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stands	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 obliged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	oblige	past · passive		the castle				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	pull down	to-infinitive · passive						vn slide-11.2 «NP V»
3	use	past · passive		the stone		again	for the walls of a new mansion on another spot and the baronial residence of Borreby	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for wall=Eventuality
4	stand	present	Borreby		the coast	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near coast=Location

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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