Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 58

"'Yes; well in my youth, I lived in a quiet family, where the furniture was polished, the floors scoured, and clean curtains put up every fortnight.'

Who acts: pleasure, floors · What happens: live, polish, scour, put up · To what, where: youth, quiet family, furniture, clean curtains

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pleasure, floors), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 youth	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 youth	punct
3	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 youth	discourse
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 Yes	punct
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 youth	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 youth	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 youth	nmod:poss
8	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lived	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 lived	nsubj
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 youth	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 family	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 family	det
14	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 family	amod
15	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 polished	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 polished	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 furniture	det
19	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 polished	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 polished	aux:pass
21	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 family	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 scoured	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 floors	det
24	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 scoured	nsubj
25	scoured	scour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 polished	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 put	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 put	cc
28	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 curtains	amod
29	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 put	nsubj:pass
30	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 lived	advcl
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 put	compound:prt
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 fortnight	det
33	fortnight	fortnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 put	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 youth	punct
35	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 youth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	live in a quote	past	pleasure	my youth not said here	a quiet family		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme youth=Location
2	polish in a quote	past · passive		the furniture			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
3	scour in a quote	past	the floors				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	put up in a quote	participle · passive		clean curtains		fortnight	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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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