Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 3

Inside the house the rooms were very high and had ceilings of beams, and that was very useful considering the great deal of smoke which rose up from the chimney fire where the large, damp logs of wood smouldered.

Who acts: rooms, that, great deal, large damp logs · What happens: be, have, consider, rise up, smoulder, deal · To what, where: house, ceilings, great deal, chimney fire, smoke

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 (rooms, that, great deal, large damp logs), 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	Inside	inside	ADP	_	3 house	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 high	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rooms	det
5	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 high	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 high	cop
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 high	advmod
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 had	cc
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 high	conj
11	ceilings	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 beams	case
13	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ceilings	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 useful	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 useful	cc
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 useful	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 useful	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 useful	advmod
19	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 high	parataxis
20	considering	consider	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 useful	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 deal	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 deal	amod
23	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 considering	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 smoke	case
25	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 deal	nmod
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 rose	nsubj
27	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 deal	acl:relcl
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 rose	compound:prt
29	from	from	ADP	_	32 fire	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fire	det
31	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fire	compound
32	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 rose	obl
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	41 smouldered	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 logs	det
35	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 logs	amod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 large	punct
37	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 logs	amod
38	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 smouldered	nsubj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 wood	case
40	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 logs	nmod
41	smouldered	smoulder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 fire	acl:relcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 high	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the rooms		the house	high property	tree rules
2	have	past	the rooms not said here	ceilings of beams			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceiling=Patient
3	is	past	that			useful property	tree rules
4	consider	gerund	that not said here	the great deal of smoke			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent deal=Attribute
5	rise up	past	the great deal of smoke		the chimney fire		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from fire=Initial_Location
6	smoulder	participle	the large damp logs of wood				tree rules
7	deal			smoke			nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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