Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 32

There are rooms and halls in it, but we do not enter them, we remain in the kitchen, where it is warm and light, clean and tidy; the copper utensils are shining, the table as if polished with beeswax; the sink looks like a freshly scoured meatboard.

Who acts: rooms, we, kitchen, copper utensils, sink · What happens: be, not enter, remain, shine, polish, look · To what, where: hall, rooms, kitchen, table

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, we, kitchen, copper utensils), 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 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 halls	cc
5	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rooms	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 are	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 enter	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 enter	cc
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 enter	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 enter	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 enter	advmod
13	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 are	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 enter	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 remain	punct
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 remain	nsubj
17	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 enter	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 kitchen	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 kitchen	det
20	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 remain	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 warm	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 warm	advmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 warm	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 warm	cop
25	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 remain	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 light	cc
27	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 warm	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 clean	punct
29	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 warm	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 tidy	cc
31	tidy	tidy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 clean	conj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 shining	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 utensils	det
34	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 utensils	compound
35	utensils	utensil	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 shining	nsubj
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 shining	aux
37	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 are	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 table	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 table	det
40	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 shining	obl
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 polished	mark
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	43 polished	mark
43	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 shining	advcl
44	with	with	ADP	_	45 beeswax	case
45	beeswax	beeswax	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 polished	obl
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 looks	punct
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 sink	det
48	sink	sink	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 looks	nsubj
49	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 are	parataxis
50	like	like	ADP	_	54 meatboard	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 meatboard	det
52	freshly	freshly	ADV	_	53 scoured	advmod
53	scoured	scour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 meatboard	amod
54	meatboard	meatboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 looks	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	rooms and halls		hall; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location
2	not enter	present · do-support	we	rooms = room			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination
3	remain	present	we		the kitchen		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kitchen=Location
4	is	present	kitchen			warm property	tree rules
5	be		kitchen not said here				tree rules
6	be		kitchen not said here				tree rules
7	shine	present · progressive	the copper utensils	the table			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	polish	participle	the copper utensils not said here			with beeswax	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with beeswax=Theme
9	look	present	the sink			like a scoured meatboard	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
10	scour	participle				freshly property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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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