Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 2

Balsams and other flowers greet us from the long rows of windows in the house, whose interior is sufficiently poverty-stricken; and poor and old are the people who inhabit it.

Who acts: Balsams, interior, poor people · What happens: greet, be, inhabit · To what, where: us, long rows, poor people, house

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balsams, interior, poor people), 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	Balsams	balsam	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 greet	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 flowers	cc
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flowers	amod
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Balsams	conj
5	greet	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 greet	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 rows	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rows	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rows	amod
10	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 greet	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 windows	case
12	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rows	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 house	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 windows	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stricken	punct
17	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	18 interior	nmod:poss
18	interior	interior	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stricken	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 stricken	cop
20	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	_	23 stricken	advmod
21	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stricken	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 poverty	punct
23	stricken	stricken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 house	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 poor	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 poor	cc
26	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 people	amod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 old	cc
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 poor	conj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 people	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 people	det
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 greet	parataxis
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 inhabit	nsubj
33	inhabit	inhabit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 people	acl:relcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 inhabit	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 greet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	present	Balsams and other flowers		us	the long rows of windows in the house		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	is	present	interior				stricken, sufficiently property	tree rules
3	is a	present		the poor people				tree rules
4	inhabit	present	the poor people	house				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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