Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 40

The doors were fastened together with string; the floors of the rooms were of brick, broken in many places; bats flew about under the roof; and as to the odor within--

Who acts: floors, bats · What happens: fasten, be, break, fly · To what, where: doors, brick, many places

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (floors, bats), 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 doors	det
2	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fastened	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fastened	aux:pass
4	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	together	together	ADV	_	4 fastened	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 string	case
7	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fastened	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 brick	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 floors	det
10	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 brick	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 rooms	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rooms	det
13	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 floors	nmod
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 brick	cop
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 brick	case
16	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fastened	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 broken	punct
18	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 brick	acl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 places	case
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 places	amod
21	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 broken	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 flew	punct
23	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 flew	nsubj
24	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fastened	conj
25	about	about	ADP	_	28 roof	case
26	under	under	ADP	_	28 roof	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 roof	det
28	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flew	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 odor	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 odor	cc
31	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	34 odor	case
32	to	to	ADP	_	31 as	fixed
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 odor	det
34	odor	odor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fastened	parataxis
35	within	within	ADP	_	4 fastened	obl
36	--	--	PUNCT	_	4 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fasten	past · passive		the doors		with string; together property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with string=Co-Patient
2	is	past	the floors of the rooms			of brick	tree rules
3	break	participle		brick not said here	many places		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location
4	fly	past	bats			about the roof	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about roof=Location

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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