Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 161
It was all a picture, a great splendid picture, which the artist had painted from a sketch.
Who acts: wall · What happens: be, paint · To what, where: picture, artist, sketch
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wall), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 picture | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 picture | cop |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 picture | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 picture | det |
| 5 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 picture | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 picture | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 picture | amod |
| 9 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 picture | amod |
| 10 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 picture | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 painted | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 painted | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 artist | det |
| 14 | artist | artist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 painted | aux |
| 16 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 picture | acl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 sketch | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sketch | det |
| 19 | sketch | sketch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 painted | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 picture | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | wall | all picture | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | paint | past · perfect · passive | the artist | a sketch | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient which=Result |
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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