Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 28

The high houses around had all of them balconies to the windows, from which the inhabitants looked down upon the young fresh chestnut tree, which was coming to be planted here as a substitute for the dead tree that lay stretched on the ground.

Who acts: high houses, all, inhabitants, young fresh chestnut tree · What happens: have, balcony, look down, come, plant, stretch · To what, where: dead tree, ground

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (high houses, all, inhabitants, young fresh chestnut tree), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 houses	det
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 houses	amod
3	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	nsubj
4	around	around	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 balconies	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 all	nmod
9	balconies	balcony	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 windows	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 windows	det
12	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 looked	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 inhabitants	det
17	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 looked	nsubj
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
19	down	down	ADV	_	18 looked	advmod
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 tree	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tree	det
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tree	amod
23	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tree	amod
24	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tree	compound
25	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looked	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 coming	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 coming	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 coming	aux
29	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 tree	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	32 planted	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 planted	aux:pass
32	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 coming	advcl
33	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 planted	advmod
34	as	as	ADP	_	36 substitute	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 substitute	det
36	substitute	substitute	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 planted	obl
37	for	for	ADP	_	40 tree	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 tree	det
39	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 tree	amod
40	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 planted	obl
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 stretched	nsubj:pass
42	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 stretched	aux:pass
43	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 tree	acl:relcl
44	on	on	ADP	_	46 ground	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 ground	det
46	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 stretched	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the high houses			to the windows; around property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	balcony		all				tree rules
3	look down	past	the inhabitants			upon the young fresh chestnut tree; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from which=Theme
4	come	past · progressive	the young fresh chestnut tree				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	plant	to-infinitive · passive	the young fresh chestnut tree not said here		here	as a substitute; for the dead tree	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»
6	stretch	past · passive		the dead tree	the ground		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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