Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 101
At night the boxes and other effects of the passengers were placed against the rickety doors.
What happens: place, effect · To what, where: boxes, rickety doors, passengers
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 night | case |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 placed | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boxes | det |
| 4 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 effects | cc |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 effects | amod |
| 7 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 boxes | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 passengers | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 passengers | det |
| 10 | passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 effects | nmod |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 placed | aux:pass |
| 12 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 16 doors | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 doors | det |
| 15 | rickety | rickety | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 doors | amod |
| 16 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 placed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | the boxes and other effects of the passengers | the rickety doors | night | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme against door=Destination | |||
| 2 | effect | the passengers | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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