Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-eighth Evening, sentence 4
On the wall, above the grave of each, is placed the emblem of earthly grandeur, a kingly crown; but it is made only of wood, painted and gilt, and is hung on a wooden peg driven into the wall.
What happens: place, make, paint, hang, drive · To what, where: emblem, wall, wood, wooden peg
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-eighth 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 wall | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wall | det |
| 3 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 placed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 grave | punct |
| 5 | above | above | ADP | _ | 7 grave | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grave | det |
| 7 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wall | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 each | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 grave | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wall | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 placed | aux:pass |
| 12 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 emblem | det |
| 14 | emblem | emblem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 placed | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 grandeur | case |
| 16 | earthly | earthly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 grandeur | amod |
| 17 | grandeur | grandeur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 emblem | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 crown | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 crown | det |
| 20 | kingly | kingly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 crown | amod |
| 21 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grandeur | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 made | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 made | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 made | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 made | aux:pass |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 placed | advcl |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 29 wood | advmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 wood | case |
| 29 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 painted | punct |
| 31 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 wood | acl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 gilt | cc |
| 33 | gilt | gilt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 painted | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 hung | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 hung | cc |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 hung | aux:pass |
| 37 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 placed | conj |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 peg | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 peg | det |
| 40 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 peg | amod |
| 41 | peg | peg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hung | obl |
| 42 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 peg | acl |
| 43 | into | into | ADP | _ | 45 wall | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 wall | det |
| 45 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 driven | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | present · passive | the emblem of earthly grandeur and a kingly crown | the wall | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: emblem=Theme on wall=Destination | ||||
| 2 | make | present · passive | emblem | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary wood=Product | |||||
| 3 | paint | participle | wood not said here | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hang | present · passive | a wooden peg | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: on peg=Location | |||||
| 5 | drive | participle | a wooden peg not said here | the wall | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into wall=Trajectory |
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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