Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 18

The names were painted up; and every house above had its number down here also, and struck its roots under the macadamized quays of a broad canal, in which the muddy water flowed onward.

Who acts: house, muddy water · What happens: paint up, have down, strike, macadamize, flow · To what, where: names, number, roots, macadamized quays

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, muddy water), 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	2 names	det
2	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 painted	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 painted	aux:pass
4	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 painted	compound:prt
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 painted	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
10	above	above	ADV	_	11 had	advmod
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 painted	conj
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 number	nmod:poss
13	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	down	down	ADV	_	11 had	advmod
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 had	advmod
16	also	also	ADV	_	11 had	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 struck	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 struck	cc
19	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 painted	conj
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 roots	nmod:poss
21	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 struck	obj
22	under	under	ADP	_	25 quays	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 quays	det
24	macadamized	macadamize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 quays	amod
25	quays	quay	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 struck	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 canal	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 canal	det
28	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 canal	amod
29	canal	canal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 quays	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 flowed	punct
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 flowed	obl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 water	det
34	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 water	amod
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 flowed	nsubj
36	flowed	flow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 struck	conj
37	onward	onward	ADV	_	36 flowed	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 painted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	paint up	past · passive		the names			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
2	have down	past	every house	house's number	here	above, down property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient
3	strike	past		house's roots	the macadamized quays of a broad canal		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient
4	macadamize	participle					tree rules
5	flow	participle	the muddy water			onward property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=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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