Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 18
This took place at his house, in his room; where stood large glass-cases, filled with elegant shoes and brilliant boots.
Who acts: This · What happens: take, stand, fill · To what, where: place, house, large glass cases
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 house | nmod:poss |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 room | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 room | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 room | nmod:poss |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 stood | advmod |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cases | amod |
| 15 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cases | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 glass | punct |
| 17 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stood | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 filled | punct |
| 19 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 stood | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 shoes | case |
| 21 | elegant | elegant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 shoes | amod |
| 22 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 filled | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 boots | cc |
| 24 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 boots | amod |
| 25 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 shoes | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | This | place | Dame's house | in Dame's room | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in room=Location | ||
| 2 | stand | past | This not said here | large glass cases | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer case=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fill | participle | This not said here | with elegant shoes and brilliant boots | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with shoe=Instrument |
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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