Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 11
The iron railing looks like the gate of a cemetery, and there are brass knobs upon it.
Who acts: iron railing, brass knobs · What happens: look, be
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 (iron railing, brass knobs), 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 | 3 railing | det |
| 2 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 railing | compound |
| 3 | railing | railing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looks | nsubj |
| 4 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 gate | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gate | det |
| 7 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looks | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cemetery | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cemetery | det |
| 10 | cemetery | cemetery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gate | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 are | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 are | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 are | expl |
| 14 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 looks | conj |
| 15 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knobs | compound |
| 16 | knobs | knob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 are | nsubj |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knobs | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | the iron railing | like the gate of a cemetery | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | does | present | brass knobs upon railing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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