Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 82
Your house will exalt itself like King Waldemar's tower, and will be richly decorated with marble statues, like that at Prastoe.
Who acts: house · What happens: exalt, decorate · To what, where: yard
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 house | nmod:poss |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 exalt | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 exalt | aux |
| 4 | exalt | exalt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 exalt | obj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 tower | case |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tower | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Waldemar | Waldemar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | flat |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 King | case |
| 10 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 exalt | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 decorated | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 decorated | cc |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 decorated | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 decorated | aux:pass |
| 15 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 16 decorated | advmod |
| 16 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 exalt | parataxis |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 statues | case |
| 18 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 statues | compound |
| 19 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 decorated | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 that | punct |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 that | case |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 statues | nmod |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 Prastoe | case |
| 24 | Prastoe | Prastoe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 that | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 exalt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exalt | future | Your house | yard | like King's tower | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer itself=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | decorate | future · passive | with marble statues like that; richly property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with statue=Theme |
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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