Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 9
Above all the rest stood Fo, the chief deity, clad in a garment of yellow silk, for yellow is here the sacred colour.
What happens: stand, clad, be · To what, where: Fo, rest, chief deity, garment, sacred colour
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 | Above | above | ADP | _ | 4 rest | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 rest | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rest | det |
| 4 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Fo | Fo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 deity | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 deity | det |
| 9 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 deity | amod |
| 10 | deity | deity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Fo | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 clad | punct |
| 12 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 deity | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 garment | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 garment | det |
| 15 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clad | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 silk | case |
| 17 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 silk | amod |
| 18 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 garment | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 colour | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 yellow | case |
| 21 | yellow | yellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 colour | obl |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 colour | cop |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 colour | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 colour | det |
| 25 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 colour | amod |
| 26 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clad | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Fo | all rest | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fo=Theme above rest=Destination | ||||
| 2 | clad | participle | the chief deity not said here | a garment of yellow silk | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the sacred colour | here | for yellow | tree rules |
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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