Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 20
At the farther end of the city, on the flat roof paved with porcelain, on which stood the handsome vases covered with painted flowers, sat the beauteous Pu, of the little roguish eyes, of the full lips, and of the tiny feet.
What happens: pave, stand, cover, paint, sit · To what, where: flat roof, handsome vases, beauteous Pu
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. 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 | _ | 4 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 3 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 end | amod |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 city | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 city | det |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 roof | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 roof | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 roof | det |
| 11 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 roof | amod |
| 12 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | conj |
| 13 | paved | pave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 roof | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 porcelain | case |
| 15 | porcelain | porcelain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 paved | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stood | punct |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 stood | nsubj |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 paved | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 vases | det |
| 21 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 vases | amod |
| 22 | vases | vas | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 stood | obj |
| 23 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 vases | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 flowers | case |
| 25 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 flowers | amod |
| 26 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 covered | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sat | punct |
| 28 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stood | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Pu | det |
| 30 | beauteous | beauteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Pu | amod |
| 31 | Pu | Pu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 sat | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 eyes | punct |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 eyes | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 eyes | det |
| 35 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 eyes | amod |
| 36 | roguish | roguish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 eyes | amod |
| 37 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 sat | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 lips | punct |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 lips | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 lips | det |
| 41 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 lips | amod |
| 42 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 sat | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 feet | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 feet | cc |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 feet | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 feet | det |
| 47 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 feet | amod |
| 48 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 sat | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 end | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pave | participle | the flat roof not said here | with porcelain | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with porcelain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the handsome vases | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vas=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | cover | participle | the handsome vases not said here | with painted flowers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme | ||||
| 4 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | sit | past | the beauteous Pu | of the little roguish eyes; of the full lips | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pu=Theme |
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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