Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 45

The house was filled to suffocation; and among other pieces to be recited was a new poem by H. C. Andersen, called, My Aunt's Spectacles; the contents of which were pretty nearly as follows:

Who acts: other pieces · What happens: fill, recite, be, call · To what, where: house, new poem · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other pieces), 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 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 filled	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 filled	aux:pass
4	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 suffocation	case
6	suffocation	suffocation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 filled	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 poem	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pieces	cc
9	among	among	ADP	_	11 pieces	case
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 pieces	amod
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 poem	nsubj
12	to	to	PART	_	14 recited	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 recited	aux:pass
14	recited	recite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 pieces	acl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 poem	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 poem	det
17	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 poem	amod
18	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 filled	obl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 C.	case
20	H.	H.	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 C.	compound
21	C.	C.	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 poem	nmod
22	Andersen	Andersen	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 C.	flat
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 called	punct
24	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 poem	acl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Spectacles	punct
26	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 Spectacles	nmod:poss
27	Aunt	Aunt	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Spectacles	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 Aunt	case
29	Spectacles	Spectacles	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 called	xcomp
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 contents	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 contents	det
32	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 filled	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 which	case
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 follows	obl
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 follows	cop
36	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	37 nearly	advmod
37	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	39 follows	advmod
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 follows	mark
39	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 contents	acl:relcl
40	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 filled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fill	past · passive		the house	to suffocation; the contents obl	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	recite	to-infinitive · passive	other pieces not said here			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»
3	is a	past	other pieces	a new poem	by H. C.	tree rules
4	call	participle		a new poem not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past			of the contents; follow, nearly 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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