Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 29
And there stood easy-chairs, with such high backs, and so carved out, and with arms on both sides.
What happens: stand, carve out · To what, where: easy chairs
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: 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 | _ | 3 stood | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | expl |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chairs | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 easy | punct |
| 6 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 backs | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 backs | case |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 backs | amod |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 backs | amod |
| 11 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carved | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 carved | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 carved | advmod |
| 15 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stood | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 carved | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 arms | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 arms | cc |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 arms | case |
| 20 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 sides | case |
| 22 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 sides | det |
| 23 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 arms | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | easy chairs | there | with such high backs; with arms on both sides | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chair=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | carve out | participle | 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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