Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 10
The stairs are as broad as the staircase of a castle, and as steep as if they led to a church-tower.
Who acts: stairs · What happens: be, lead
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stairs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stairs | det |
| 2 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 broad | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 broad | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 broad | advmod |
| 5 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 staircase | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 staircase | det |
| 8 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broad | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 castle | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 staircase | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 steep | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 steep | cc |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 steep | advmod |
| 15 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 broad | conj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 led | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 led | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 led | nsubj |
| 19 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 steep | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 tower | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tower | det |
| 22 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tower | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 church | punct |
| 24 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 led | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 broad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the stairs | as the staircase of a castle; broad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the stairs not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | lead | past | stairs = stair | to a church tower | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to tower=Patient |
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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