Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 69

Portraits were hanging on the walls, and near the white porcelain stove stood two large Chinese vases with lions on the covers.

Who acts: Portraits · What happens: hang, stand · To what, where: walls, two large Chinese vases, white porcelain stove

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 (Portraits), 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	Portraits	portrait	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hanging	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hanging	aux
3	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 walls	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 walls	det
6	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hanging	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stood	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stood	cc
9	near	near	ADP	_	13 stove	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stove	det
11	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stove	amod
12	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stove	compound
13	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stood	obl
14	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hanging	conj
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 vases	nummod
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 vases	amod
17	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 vases	amod
18	vases	vas	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stood	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 lions	case
20	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 vases	nmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 covers	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 covers	det
23	covers	cover	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stood	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hanging	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past · progressive	Portraits			the walls			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location
2	stand	past	Portraits not said here	two large Chinese vases		the white porcelain stove		with lions; on the covers	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vas=Theme near stove=Destination

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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