Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 47

Not a shop to be seen; nothing but old, wretched, tumble-down houses, just as if I were at Roeskilde or Ringstedt.

Who acts: I · What happens: not see, be · To what, where: shop

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 seen	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shop	det
3	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seen	nsubj:pass
4	to	to	PART	_	6 seen	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 seen	aux:pass
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 seen	obj
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 houses	cc
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 houses	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wretched	punct
12	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 old	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 old	punct
14	tumble	tumble	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 down	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 tumble	punct
16	down	down	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 houses	compound
17	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 nothing	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Roeskilde	punct
19	just	just	ADV	_	25 Roeskilde	advmod
20	as	as	ADP	_	25 Roeskilde	case
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 Roeskilde	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 Roeskilde	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 Roeskilde	cop
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 Roeskilde	case
25	Roeskilde	Roeskilde	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 houses	nmod
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 Ringstedt	cc
27	Ringstedt	Ringstedt	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Roeskilde	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	to-infinitive · passive		a shop					tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	I					as Roeskilde or Ringstedt	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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