Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 2

The hospital is separated from the street by an iron railing, in which the bars stand so wide apart that, it is said, some very slim patients have squeezed through, and gone to pay little visits in the town.

Who acts: iron railing, bars · What happens: separate, stand, say, squeeze, go, pay · To what, where: hospital, that, tale, slim patients, little visits, town · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (iron railing, bars), 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 hospital	det
2	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 separated	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 separated	aux:pass
4	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 street	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 street	det
7	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 separated	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 railing	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 railing	det
10	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 railing	compound
11	railing	railing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 separated	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stand	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 stand	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bars	det
16	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stand	nsubj
17	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 separated	conj
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 wide	advmod
19	wide	wide	ADV	_	17 stand	advmod
20	apart	apart	ADV	_	17 stand	advmod
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 stand	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 said	aux:pass
25	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 separated	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 squeezed	punct
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 patients	det
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 slim	advmod
29	slim	slim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 patients	amod
30	patients	patient	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 squeezed	nsubj:pass
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 squeezed	aux
32	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 said	conj
33	through	through	ADV	_	32 squeezed	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 gone	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 gone	cc
36	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 squeezed	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 pay	mark
38	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 gone	xcomp
39	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 visits	amod
40	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 pay	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 town	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 town	det
43	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 pay	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 separated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	separate	present · passive	a iron railing	the hospital		from the street	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient from street=Co-Patient
2	stand	present	the bars	that		apart, wide property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme in which=Destination
3	say speech: assert	present · passive		tale			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
4	squeeze	present · perfect · passive		some slim patients		through property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	go	participle					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	pay	to-infinitive		little visits	the town		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset

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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