Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Great Grief, sentence 17

Our windows looked into the tan-yard, which was divided into two parts by a partition of planks; in one half were many skins and hides, raw and tanned.

Who acts: windows, partition · What happens: look, divide, be, hide, tan · To what, where: tan yard, two parts, half many skins

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Great Grief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (windows, partition), 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 windows	nmod:poss
2	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	8 yard	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 yard	det
6	tan	tan	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 yard	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 tan	punct
8	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 divided	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 divided	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 divided	aux:pass
12	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 yard	acl:relcl
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 parts	case
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 parts	nummod
15	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 divided	obl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 partition	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 partition	det
18	partition	partition	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 divided	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 planks	case
20	planks	plank	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 partition	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 skins	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 half	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 half	nummod
24	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	27 skins	compound
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 skins	cop
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 skins	amod
27	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 looked	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hides	cc
29	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 skins	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 raw	punct
31	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 skins	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tanned	cc
33	tanned	tan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	Our windows			into the tan yard	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into yard=Theme
2	divide	past · passive	a partition of planks	the tan yard	two parts		vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	is a	past		half many skins			tree rules
4	hide	present					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	be						tree rules
6	tan	past	Our windows not said here				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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