Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 101
They now entered the first saloon, which was of rose-colored satin, with artificial flowers on the wall.
Who acts: woods, first saloon · What happens: enter, color, be · To what, where: first saloon
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woods, first saloon), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 entered | advmod |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 saloon | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 saloon | amod |
| 6 | saloon | saloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 satin | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 satin | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 satin | cop |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 satin | case |
| 11 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 colored | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 rose | punct |
| 13 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 satin | amod |
| 14 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saloon | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flowers | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 flowers | case |
| 17 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 flowers | amod |
| 18 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 satin | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 wall | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wall | det |
| 21 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flowers | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | woods = wood | the first saloon | now | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme saloon=Destination | |||
| 2 | color | participle | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the first saloon | of colored satin and artificial flowers on the wall | 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: «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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