Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 109

It was a coarse wood-cut, representing a splendid meteor “as seen in the town of Cologne,” which was to be read below in bright letters.

Who acts: paper · What happens: be, represent, see, read · To what, where: coarse wood cut, splendid meteor, town, bright letters

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (paper), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cut	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cut	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cut	det
4	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cut	amod
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cut	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 wood	punct
7	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 representing	punct
9	representing	represent	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cut	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 meteor	det
11	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 meteor	amod
12	meteor	meteor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 representing	obj
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 seen	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 seen	mark
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 representing	advcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 town	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 town	det
18	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seen	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Cologne	case
20	Cologne	Cologne	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 town	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 seen	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 seen	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 read	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 read	aux:pass
25	to	to	PART	_	27 read	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 read	aux:pass
27	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cut	parataxis
28	below	below	ADV	_	27 read	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 letters	case
30	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 letters	amod
31	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 read	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	paper	a coarse wood cut			tree rules
2	represent	gerund	paper not said here	a splendid meteor			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot meteor=Theme
3	see in a quote	participle	paper not said here		the town of Cologne		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	read	past · passive		a coarse wood cut	bright letters	below property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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