Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 97
On the walls were displayed innumerable inscriptions, written in nearly every language of Europe, some in verse, some in prose, most of them not very laudatory of “bella Italia.”
What happens: display, write · To what, where: innumerable inscriptions, walls, language
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 walls | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 walls | det |
| 3 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 displayed | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 displayed | aux:pass |
| 5 | displayed | display | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | innumerable | innumerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 inscriptions | amod |
| 7 | inscriptions | inscription | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 displayed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 written | punct |
| 9 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 inscriptions | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 language | case |
| 11 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 13 language | advmod |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 language | det |
| 13 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 written | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Europe | case |
| 15 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 language | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 verse | punct |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 verse | det |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 verse | case |
| 19 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 inscriptions | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 prose | punct |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 prose | det |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 prose | case |
| 23 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 inscriptions | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 laudatory | punct |
| 25 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 laudatory | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 most | nmod |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 laudatory | advmod |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 laudatory | advmod |
| 30 | laudatory | laudatory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 displayed | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Italia | case |
| 32 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Italia | punct |
| 33 | bella | bella | ADP | _ | 34 Italia | case |
| 34 | Italia | Italia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 laudatory | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 displayed | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 displayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | display | past · passive | innumerable inscriptions and some verse and some prose | the walls | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: inscription=Theme | ||||
| 2 | write | participle | innumerable inscriptions and some verse and some prose not said here | every language of Europe | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in language=Destination |
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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