Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 30
All round the hall hung old portraits of knights in armor, and ladies in silk gowns; and the armor rattled, and the silk dresses rustled.
Who acts: armor · What happens: hang, rattle, rustle, portray · To what, where: old portraits, silk, knights
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 (armor), 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 | All | all | ADV | _ | 5 hung | advmod |
| 2 | round | round | ADP | _ | 4 hall | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hall | det |
| 4 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hung | obl |
| 5 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 portraits | amod |
| 7 | portraits | portrait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hung | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 knights | case |
| 9 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 portraits | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 armor | case |
| 11 | armor | armor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knights | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ladies | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ladies | cc |
| 14 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hung | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 gowns | case |
| 16 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gowns | compound |
| 17 | gowns | gown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ladies | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 rattled | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rattled | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 armor | det |
| 21 | armor | armor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rattled | nsubj |
| 22 | rattled | rattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hung | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 rustled | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 rustled | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 silk | det |
| 26 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 rustled | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | dresses | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 rustled | aux:pass |
| 28 | rustled | rustle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 rattled | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | old portraits of knights in armor | round the hall; ladies in silk gowns obl; all property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portrait=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rattle | past | the armor | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rustle | present · passive | the silk | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | portray | knights in armor | nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=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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