Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 26
And then they entered a chamber where the walls were covered with hog's leather, and printed with gold flowers.
Who acts: flowers · What happens: enter, cover, print · To what, where: chamber, walls
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 entered | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 entered | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 chamber | det |
| 6 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | obj |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 covered | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 walls | det |
| 9 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 covered | aux:pass |
| 11 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 chamber | acl:relcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 leather | case |
| 13 | hog | hog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leather | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 hog | case |
| 15 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covered | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 printed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 printed | cc |
| 18 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 entered | parataxis | |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 flowers | case |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 flowers | compound |
| 21 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 printed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | flowers = flower | a chamber | then | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination | |||
| 2 | cover | past · passive | the walls | with hog's leather | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with leather=Theme | ||||
| 3 | participle | with gold flowers | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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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