Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 100
And there were smaller boxes to look at, and the piano was opened, and inside the lid were painted landscapes.
Who acts: smaller boxes · What happens: be, look, open, paint · To what, where: piano, landscapes, lid
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 (smaller boxes), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 were | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 boxes | amod |
| 5 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 were | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 boxes | acl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 opened | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 opened | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 piano | det |
| 12 | piano | piano | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 opened | aux:pass |
| 14 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 were | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 painted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 painted | cc |
| 17 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 19 lid | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lid | det |
| 19 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 painted | obl |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 painted | aux:pass |
| 21 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 opened | parataxis |
| 22 | landscapes | landscape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 painted | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | smaller boxes | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | smaller boxes not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | open | past · passive | the piano | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | paint | past · passive | landscapes | the lid | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: landscape=Theme inside lid=Destination |
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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