Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 8
Before each idol (and they are all made of tin) stood a little altar of holy water, with flowers and burning wax lights on it.
Who acts: idol · What happens: make, stand, burn · To what, where: statues, little altar, wax lights, idol
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 (idol), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 3 idol | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 idol | det |
| 3 | idol | idol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 made | advmod |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 idol | acl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 tin | case |
| 11 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 altar | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 altar | amod |
| 16 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 18 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 water | amod |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 altar | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 flowers | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 flowers | case |
| 22 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 stood | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 burning | cc |
| 24 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 flowers | conj |
| 25 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lights | compound |
| 26 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 burning | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 burning | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | statues = statue | of tin; all property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | each idol | a little altar of holy water | with flowers | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer altar=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | burn | gerund | each idol not said here | wax lights | idol | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent light=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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