Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifth Evening, sentence 10

It looked so, and yet it did not,' observed the man: 'the windows were beaten in, and the doors were off their hinges, and there was blood upon the floor.' '

Who acts: church, doors, blood · What happens: look, not do, observe, beat, be · To what, where: man, windows, floor

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (church, doors, blood), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	2 looked	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 did	cc
6	yet	yet	ADV	_	8 did	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 did	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 observed	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 observed	punct
12	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 observed	obj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 beaten	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	20 beaten	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 windows	det
18	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 beaten	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 beaten	aux:pass
20	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 man	acl:relcl
21	in	in	ADV	_	20 beaten	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hinges	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hinges	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 doors	det
25	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hinges	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hinges	cop
27	off	off	ADP	_	29 hinges	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hinges	nmod:poss
29	hinges	hinge	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 observed	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 was	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 was	cc
32	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	33 was	expl
33	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	parataxis
34	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 was	nsubj
35	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 floor	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 floor	det
37	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 was	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	church					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	not do	past	church			yet		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	observe	past	church not said here	the man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
4	beat	past · passive		the windows				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	is	past	the doors				off doors's hinges	tree rules
6	be	past	blood		the floor; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon floor=Location

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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