Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 5

Instead of the forest and the green hills of former days, I had here only a forest of chimney-pots to look out upon.

Who acts: I · What happens: have, look out · To what, where: forest

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	Instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	4 forest	case
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Instead	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 forest	det
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hills	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hills	det
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hills	amod
8	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 forest	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 days	case
10	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 days	amod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hills	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 forest	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 had	advmod
16	only	only	ADV	_	18 forest	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 forest	det
18	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 pots	case
20	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pots	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 chimney	punct
22	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 forest	nmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 look	mark
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	advcl
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 look	compound:prt
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	24 look	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	a forest of chimney pots		here		instead the forest and the green hills of former days	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	look out	to-infinitive	I not said here						vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: 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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