Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 92
Her picture hung in the chapel, surrounded by silver lamps; but it did not in the least resemble Molly.
Who acts: picture, chapel · What happens: hang, surround, not resemble · To what, where: chapel, Molly
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (picture, chapel), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 picture | nmod:poss |
| 2 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | nsubj |
| 3 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 chapel | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chapel | det |
| 6 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hung | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 surrounded | punct |
| 8 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 chapel | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 lamps | case |
| 10 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lamps | compound |
| 11 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 resemble | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 resemble | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 resemble | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 resemble | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 resemble | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 20 resemble | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 least | det |
| 19 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 resemble | nsubj |
| 20 | resemble | resemble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hung | conj |
| 21 | Molly | Molly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 resemble | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | Elizabeth's picture | the chapel | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chapel=Location | ||||
| 2 | surround | participle | the chapel not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not resemble | past · do-support | chapel | Molly | 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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