Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 5
The steps are as broad as those of a palace, and as high as to a church tower.
Who acts: steps · What happens: be
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 (steps), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 steps | det |
| 2 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 broad | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 broad | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 broad | advmod |
| 5 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 those | case |
| 7 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 broad | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 those | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 high | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 high | cc |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 high | advmod |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 broad | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 19 tower | case |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 as | fixed |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tower | det |
| 18 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tower | compound |
| 19 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 high | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 broad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the steps | as those; broad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the steps not said here | as a church tower | 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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