Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 79
The husband's portrait was used as a weather-cock, which was connected in some way or other with the doors, and so they opened and shut of their own accord, whenever the stern old husband turned round.
Who acts: doors, stern old husband, husband · What happens: use, connect, open, turn round, portray · To what, where: portrait, weather cock, way
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 (doors, stern old husband, husband), 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 husband | det |
| 2 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 portrait | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 husband | case |
| 4 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 used | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 used | aux:pass |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 cock | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cock | det |
| 9 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cock | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 weather | punct |
| 11 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 used | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 connected | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 connected | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 connected | aux:pass |
| 15 | connected | connect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 cock | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 connected | obl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 other | cc |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 way | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 doors | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 doors | det |
| 23 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 other | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 opened | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 opened | cc |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 opened | advmod |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 opened | nsubj |
| 28 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 used | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 shut | cc |
| 30 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 opened | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 accord | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 accord | nmod:poss |
| 33 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 accord | amod |
| 34 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shut | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 turned | punct |
| 36 | whenever | whenever | SCONJ | _ | 41 turned | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 husband | det |
| 38 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 husband | amod |
| 39 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 husband | amod |
| 40 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 turned | nsubj |
| 41 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 used | conj |
| 42 | round | round | ADV | _ | 41 turned | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · passive | the husband's portrait | as a weather cock | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Duration as cock=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | connect | past · passive | a weather cock | some way | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | open | past | doors = door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | turn round | participle | the stern old husband | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | portray | the husband | nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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