Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 102

This chamber looked upon the street, in which hung skins to dry, and there were thick iron bars across his window.

Who acts: chamber, thick iron bars · What happens: look, hang, dry, be · To what, where: skins

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chamber, thick iron 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 chamber	det
2	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 street	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 street	det
6	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hung	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 hung	nsubj
10	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
11	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hung	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 dry	mark
13	dry	dry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hung	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 were	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 were	cc
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 were	expl
17	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
18	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bars	amod
19	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bars	compound
20	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 were	nsubj
21	across	across	ADP	_	23 window	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 window	nmod:poss
23	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bars	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	this chamber			upon the street	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon street=Theme
2	hang	past		skins			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
3	dry	to-infinitive					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	be	past	thick iron bars across chamber's window		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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