Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 175

But in the middle of the tulip stood white men, made of marble; a few were of plaster; still, looked at with sparrows' eyes, that comes to the same thing.

Who acts: eyes · What happens: stand, make, be, look, come · To what, where: white men, middle, same thing

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 (eyes), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 stood	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 middle	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 middle	det
4	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 tulip	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tulip	det
7	tulip	tulip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 middle	nmod
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 men	amod
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stood	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 men	acl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 marble	case
14	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 few	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 few	det
17	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 plaster	amod
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 plaster	cop
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 plaster	case
20	plaster	plaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 looked	punct
22	still	still	ADV	_	24 looked	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looked	punct
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	29 eyes	case
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 eyes	case
27	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 eyes	nmod:poss
28	'	's	PART	_	27 sparrows	case
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 looked	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 comes	punct
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 comes	nsubj
32	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 eyes	acl:relcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	36 thing	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 thing	det
35	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 thing	amod
36	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 comes	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		white men	the middle of the tulip			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme in middle=Destination
2	make	participle		white men not said here			of marble	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	is	past					of few plaster	tree rules
4	look	past				still	at sparrows's eyes	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at eye=Theme
5	come	present	sparrows's eyes		the same thing			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to thing=Initial_Location

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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