The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 122

But the house was not like other houses, for the walls of every room were hung so thick with arms that you could not see the boards.

Who acts: house, you · What happens: not be, hang, not see · To what, where: other houses, arms

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 hung	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 houses	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 houses	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 houses	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 houses	case
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 houses	amod
8	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hung	nsubj:pass
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 walls	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 walls	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 walls	det
12	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 houses	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 room	case
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 room	det
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walls	nmod
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hung	aux:pass
17	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 thick	advmod
19	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hung	xcomp
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 arms	case
21	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 thick	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 see	obj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 see	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 see	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 see	advmod
26	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 arms	acl:relcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 boards	det
28	boards	board	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 see	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the house		like other houses and the walls of every room	tree rules
2	hang	past · passive		other houses and the walls of every room	thick property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	not see	could	you	arms		tree rules

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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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