Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 13
The stage still stood unchanged, with its walled side-scenes, and the two arches in the background, through which the beholders saw the same scene that had been exhibited in the old times--a scene painted by nature herself, namely, the mountains between Sorento and Amalfi.
Who acts: stage, beholders, scene · What happens: stand, wall, see, exhibit, paint · To what, where: two arches, same scene, audience
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stage, beholders, scene), 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 stage | det |
| 2 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | unchanged | unchanged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stood | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 scenes | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 scenes | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 scenes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | walled | wall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 scenes | amod |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 scenes | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 side | punct |
| 12 | scenes | scene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 arches | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 arches | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 arches | det |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 arches | nummod |
| 17 | arches | arch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 background | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 background | det |
| 20 | background | background | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arches | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 saw | punct |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 saw | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 beholders | det |
| 25 | beholders | beholder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 saw | nsubj |
| 26 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 scene | det |
| 28 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 scene | amod |
| 29 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 saw | obj |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 exhibited | obj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 exhibited | aux |
| 32 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 exhibited | aux:pass |
| 33 | exhibited | exhibit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 scene | acl:relcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 times | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 times | det |
| 36 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 times | amod |
| 37 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 exhibited | obl |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 40 scene | punct |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 scene | det |
| 40 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 scene | appos |
| 41 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 scene | acl |
| 42 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 nature | case |
| 43 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 painted | obl |
| 44 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 painted | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 namely | punct |
| 46 | namely | namely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 saw | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 mountains | punct |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 mountains | det |
| 49 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 namely | conj |
| 50 | between | between | ADP | _ | 51 Sorento | case |
| 51 | Sorento | Sorento | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 mountains | nmod |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 Amalfi | cc |
| 53 | Amalfi | Amalfi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Sorento | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the stage | the two arches in the background | still | with stage's walled side scenes; unchanged property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | wall | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | see | past | the beholders | the same scene | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scene=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | exhibit | past · perfect · passive | the same scene | time | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: that=Theme | ||||
| 5 | paint | participle | a scene not said here | audience | by nature | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent by nature=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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