Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twelfth Evening, sentence 3
I saw handsome furniture, many books, and a chaos of newspapers.
Who acts: I · What happens: see · To what, where: handsome furniture
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twelfth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 furniture | amod |
| 4 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 books | punct |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 books | amod |
| 7 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 furniture | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 chaos | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 chaos | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 chaos | det |
| 11 | chaos | chaos | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 newspapers | case |
| 13 | newspapers | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 chaos | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | handsome furniture and many books | a chaos of newspapers obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer furniture=Stimulus |
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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