Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourth Evening, sentence 3

A stable had been turned into a theatre; that is to say, the stable had been left standing, and had been turned into private boxes, and all the timber work had been covered with coloured paper.

Who acts: that, stable · What happens: turn, be, leave, stand, cover · To what, where: stable, theatre, private boxes, timber work · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, stable), 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	2 stable	det
2	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 turned	aux:pass
5	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 theatre	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 theatre	det
8	theatre	theatre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 say	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 say	nsubj:outer
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 say	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 say	mark
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 turned	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 left	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stable	det
16	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 left	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 left	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 left	aux:pass
19	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 say	ccomp
20	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 left	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 turned	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 turned	cc
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 turned	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 turned	aux:pass
25	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 left	conj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 boxes	case
27	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 boxes	amod
28	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 turned	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 covered	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 covered	cc
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 work	det:predet
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 work	det
33	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 work	compound
34	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 covered	nsubj:pass
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 covered	aux
36	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 covered	aux:pass
37	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 turned	conj
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 paper	case
39	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 paper	amod
40	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 covered	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past · perfect · passive		a stable	a theatre		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into theatre=Trajectory
2	be speech: assert	present	that			say property	tree rules
3	leave	past · perfect · passive		the stable			tree rules
4	stand	gerund	the stable not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	turn	past · perfect · passive			private boxes		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: into box=Trajectory
6	cover	past · perfect · passive		all timber work		with coloured paper	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with paper=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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