Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 3
Verses too were written over the windows in old-fashioned letters, and grotesque faces, curiously carved, grinned at you from under the cornices.
What happens: write, carve, grin · To what, where: Verses, windows, cornices
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: 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 | Verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 written | advmod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 written | aux:pass |
| 4 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Verses | acl |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 windows | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 windows | det |
| 7 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 written | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 letters | case |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fashioned | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 old | punct |
| 11 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 letters | amod |
| 12 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 windows | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 faces | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 faces | cc |
| 15 | grotesque | grotesque | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 faces | amod |
| 16 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Verses | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carved | punct |
| 18 | curiously | curiously | ADV | _ | 19 carved | advmod |
| 19 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Verses | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 grinned | punct |
| 21 | grinned | grin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 carved | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 grinned | obl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 cornices | case |
| 25 | under | under | ADP | _ | 27 cornices | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 cornices | det |
| 27 | cornices | cornice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 grinned | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Verses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · passive | Verses and grotesque faces not said here | the windows in fashioned letters | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 2 | carve | participle | curiously property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | grin | participle | the cornices | at you | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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