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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

casedetamodcasedetnmodpunctcasedetamodconjaclcaseoblpunctcasensubjconjdetamodobjaclcaseamodoblpunctparataxisdetamodobjpunctcasedetamodamodoblpunctcasedetamodoblpunctcccasedetamodconjpunctrootAtADPtheDETfartherADJendNOUNofADPtheDETcityNOUN,PUNCTonADPtheDETflatADJroofNOUNpavedVERBwithADPporcelainNOUN,PUNCTonADPwhichPRONstoodVERBtheDEThandsomeADJvasesNOUNcoveredVERBwithADPpaintedVERBflowersNOUN,PUNCTsatVERBtheDETbeauteousADJPuPROPN,PUNCTofADPtheDETlittleADJroguishADJeyesNOUN,PUNCTofADPtheDETfullADJlipsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJofADPtheDETtinyADJfeetNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AtatADP_4 endcase
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 enddet
3fartherfarADJDegree=Cmp4 endamod
4endendNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
5ofofADP_7 citycase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 citydet
7citycityNOUNNumber=Sing4 endnmod
8,,PUNCT_12 roofpunct
9ononADP_12 roofcase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 roofdet
11flatflatADJDegree=Pos12 roofamod
12roofroofNOUNNumber=Sing4 endconj
13pavedpaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass12 roofacl
14withwithADP_15 porcelaincase
15porcelainporcelainNOUNNumber=Sing13 pavedobl
16,,PUNCT_19 stoodpunct
17ononADP_18 whichcase
18whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel19 stoodnsubj
19stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 pavedconj
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 vasesdet
21handsomehandsomeADJDegree=Pos22 vasesamod
22vasesvasNOUNNumber=Plur19 stoodobj
23coveredcoverVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass22 vasesacl
24withwithADP_26 flowerscase
25paintedpaintVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass26 flowersamod
26flowersflowerNOUNNumber=Plur23 coveredobl
27,,PUNCT_28 satpunct
28satsitVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 stoodparataxis
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 Pudet
30beauteousbeauteousADJDegree=Pos31 Puamod
31PuPuPROPNNumber=Sing28 satobj
32,,PUNCT_37 eyespunct
33ofofADP_37 eyescase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 eyesdet
35littlelittleADJDegree=Pos37 eyesamod
36roguishroguishADJDegree=Pos37 eyesamod
37eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur28 satobl
38,,PUNCT_42 lipspunct
39ofofADP_42 lipscase
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 lipsdet
41fullfullADJDegree=Pos42 lipsamod
42lipslipNOUNNumber=Plur28 satobl
43,,PUNCT_48 feetpunct
44andandCCONJ_48 feetcc
45ofofADP_48 feetcase
46thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art48 feetdet
47tinytinyADJDegree=Pos48 feetamod
48feetfootNOUNNumber=Plur28 satconj
49..PUNCT_4 endpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1paveparticiplethe flat roof not said herewith porcelainvn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with porcelain=Theme
2standpastthe handsome vasesvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vas=Stimulus
3coverparticiplethe handsome vases not said herewith painted flowersvn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme
4paintparticiplevn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5sitpastthe beauteous Puof the little roguish eyes; of the full lipsvn 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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