Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 1

There was an old mansion surrounded by a marshy ditch with a drawbridge which was but seldom let down:--not all guests are good people.

Who acts: old mansion, guests · What happens: be, surround, not be · To what, where: old mansion, good people

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old mansion, guests), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mansion	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mansion	amod
5	mansion	mansion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 mansion	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 ditch	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ditch	det
9	marshy	marshy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ditch	amod
10	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 surrounded	obl:agent
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 drawbridge	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 drawbridge	det
13	drawbridge	drawbridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 let	obj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 let	cop
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 let	cc
17	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	18 let	advmod
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 drawbridge	acl:relcl
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 let	compound:prt
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	27 people	punct
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 people	advmod
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 guests	det
24	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 people	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 people	cop
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 people	amod
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	nsubj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a old mansion		there	with a drawbridge	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	surround	participle		a old mansion not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	is	past				let, seldom property	tree rules
4	not is a	present	all guests	good people			tree rules

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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