Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 60

A great iron-bound door stood ajar; he passed through, and climbed up a brick staircase, with dirty walls and a rope for a balustrade, till he came to an open gallery hung with rags.

Who acts: great bound door, boy · What happens: stand, pass through, climb up, come, hang · To what, where: brick staircase, open gallery

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 (great bound door, boy), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 door	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 door	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bound	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 iron	punct
5	bound	bound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 door	amod
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	nsubj
7	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	ajar	ajar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stood	xcomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 passed	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 passed	nsubj
11	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stood	parataxis
12	through	through	ADV	_	11 passed	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 climbed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 climbed	cc
15	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stood	parataxis
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 climbed	compound:prt
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 staircase	det
18	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 staircase	compound
19	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 climbed	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 walls	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 walls	case
22	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 walls	amod
23	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 climbed	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 rope	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 rope	det
26	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 walls	conj
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 balustrade	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 balustrade	det
29	balustrade	balustrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 climbed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 came	punct
31	till	till	SCONJ	_	33 came	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 came	nsubj
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 climbed	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 gallery	case
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 gallery	det
36	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 gallery	amod
37	gallery	gallery	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	obl
38	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 gallery	acl
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 rags	case
40	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 hung	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	a great bound door			ajar property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pass through	past	boy			through property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	climb up	past		a brick staircase		with dirty walls and a rope; for a balustrade	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location staircase=Theme
4	come	past	boy		a open gallery		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gallery=Initial_Location
5	hang	participle		a open gallery not said here		with rags	vn assuming_position-50 «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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