Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 6
From the floor to the ceiling pictures are painted, in the most glaring colours, and richly gilt--pictures representing the deeds of the gods here on earth.
Who acts: pictures · What happens: paint, represent · To what, where: richly gilt, floor, deeds, earth
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: who acts (pictures), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 floor | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 floor | det |
| 3 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 painted | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 pictures | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pictures | det |
| 6 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pictures | compound |
| 7 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 painted | obl |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 painted | aux:pass |
| 9 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 colours | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 colours | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 colours | det |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 glaring | advmod |
| 14 | glaring | glaring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 colours | amod |
| 15 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 painted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gilt | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gilt | cc |
| 18 | richly | richly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 gilt | amod |
| 19 | gilt | gilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 painted | obl |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 pictures | punct |
| 21 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 gilt | conj |
| 22 | representing | represent | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 pictures | acl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 deeds | det |
| 24 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 representing | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 gods | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 gods | det |
| 27 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 deeds | nmod |
| 28 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 representing | advmod |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 earth | case |
| 30 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 representing | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | present · passive | richly gilt and pictures | the floor | to the ceiling pictures; in the glaring colours | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: in colour=Destination | |||
| 2 | represent | gerund | pictures not said here | the deeds of the gods | earth; here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot deed=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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