Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 70

There, too, were large easy-chairs, silken sofas, large tables full of picture-books and full of toys, worth hundreds and hundreds of crowns--at least the children said so.

Who acts: large easy chairs · What happens: be, say · To what, where: least · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (large easy chairs), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 were	expl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 were	punct
3	too	too	ADV	_	5 were	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 too	punct
5	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 said	conj
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chairs	amod
7	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 chairs	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 easy	punct
9	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 were	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sofas	punct
11	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sofas	amod
12	sofas	sofa	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 chairs	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tables	punct
14	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tables	amod
15	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 chairs	conj
16	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tables	amod
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 books	case
18	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 books	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 picture	punct
20	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 full	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 full	cc
22	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 full	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 toys	case
24	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 full	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hundreds	punct
26	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hundreds	amod
27	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 toys	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hundreds	cc
29	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 toys	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 crowns	case
31	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hundreds	nmod
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 least	case
34	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 said	obl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 children	det
36	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 least	obj
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
38	so	so	ADV	_	37 said	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	large easy chairs and silken sofas and large tables			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past				least			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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