Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 70
From the roof inside the carriage, umbrellas, walking-sticks, hats, and sundry other articles were depending, and hindered the view, which was particularly imposing.
Who acts: sundry other articles, view · What happens: depend, hinder, be · To what, where: view
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: who acts (sundry other articles, view), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 roof | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 roof | det |
| 3 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 6 carriage | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 carriage | det |
| 6 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roof | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 umbrellas | punct |
| 8 | umbrellas | umbrella | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carriage | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sticks | punct |
| 10 | walking | walking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sticks | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 walking | punct |
| 12 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 umbrellas | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hats | punct |
| 14 | hats | hat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 carriage | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 depending | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 depending | cc |
| 17 | sundry | sundry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 articles | amod |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 articles | amod |
| 19 | articles | article | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 depending | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 depending | aux |
| 21 | depending | depend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 roof | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hindered | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hindered | cc |
| 24 | hindered | hinder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 depending | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 view | det |
| 26 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hindered | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 imposing | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 imposing | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 imposing | cop |
| 30 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 31 imposing | advmod |
| 31 | imposing | imposing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 view | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 roof | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depend | past · progressive | sundry other articles | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hinder | past | the view | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer view=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the view | imposing, particularly 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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