Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 6
The iron railings look just like the door to an old family vault, and then they have brass tops--that's so stupid!”
Who acts: iron railings, railings, that · What happens: look, have, be · To what, where: brass tops
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 (iron railings, railings, that), 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 | 3 railings | det |
| 2 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 railings | amod |
| 3 | railings | railing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 look | nsubj |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 door | advmod |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 vault | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 vault | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 vault | amod |
| 12 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 vault | compound |
| 13 | vault | vault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 have | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 have | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 look | conj |
| 19 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tops | compound |
| 20 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 have | obj |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 stupid | punct |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 stupid | nsubj |
| 23 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 stupid | cop |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 stupid | advmod |
| 25 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 look | parataxis |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 stupid | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | the iron railings | like the door; to a old family vault | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to vault=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | railings = railing | brass tops | then | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent top=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | present | that | stupid property | 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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