Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 88

With the aid of some neighbors, chiefly women, the walls were in a few days erected, and very soon covered with a roof of olive-branches.

Who acts: walls · What happens: be, erect, cover · To what, where: few days

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 aid	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 aid	det
3	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 days	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 neighbors	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 neighbors	det
6	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 aid	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 women	punct
8	chiefly	chiefly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 women	amod
9	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 neighbors	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 aid	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 walls	det
12	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 days	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 days	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 days	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 days	det
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 days	amod
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
18	erected	erect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 days	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 covered	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 covered	cc
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 soon	advmod
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 covered	advmod
23	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 erected	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 roof	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 roof	det
26	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 covered	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 branches	case
28	olive	olive	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 branches	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 olive	punct
30	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 roof	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 days	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the walls		in a few days	with the aid of some neighbors and chiefly women	tree rules
2	erect	participle		a few days not said here			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	cover	participle				with a roof of olive branches; soon property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with roof=Theme

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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