Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 156

Were you never in the larder, where cheeses lie on the shelves, and hams hang from above; where one dances about on tallow candles: that place where one enters lean, and comes out again fat and portly?”

Who acts: you, cheeses, hams, one · What happens: be, lie, hang, dance, enter, come out · To what, where: larder, shelves, tallow candles, fat

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cheeses, hams, one), 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	Were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Were	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 larder	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 larder	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 larder	det
6	larder	larder	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Were	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lie	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 lie	advmod
9	cheeses	cheese	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lie	nsubj
10	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 larder	parataxis
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 shelves	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shelves	det
13	shelves	shelf	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lie	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hang	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hang	cc
16	hams	ham	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hang	nsubj
17	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lie	parataxis
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 above	case
19	above	above	ADV	_	17 hang	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 dances	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 dances	advmod
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 dances	nsubj
23	dances	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 hang	conj
24	about	about	ADV	_	23 dances	advmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 candles	case
26	tallow	tallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 candles	compound
27	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dances	obl
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	30 place	punct
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 place	det
30	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 candles	appos
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 enters	advmod
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 enters	nsubj
33	enters	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 place	acl:relcl
34	lean	lean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 enters	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 comes	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 comes	cc
37	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 dances	conj
38	out	out	ADP	_	37 comes	compound:prt
39	again	again	ADV	_	40 fat	advmod
40	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 comes	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 portly	cc
42	portly	portly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 fat	conj
43	?	?	PUNCT	_	40 fat	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 larder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	you		the larder		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in larder=Location
2	lie	present	cheeses		the shelves		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shelf=Location
3	hang	present	hams				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dance	present	one		tallow candles	about property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on candle=Location
5	enter	present	one			lean property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come out	present	one not said here	fat			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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