Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 35
Then they entered a room in which the walls were covered with leather, and the leather had golden flowers stamped upon it.
Who acts: pinks, leather, golden flowers · What happens: enter, cover, have, stamp · To what, where: room, walls, leather
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 (pinks, leather, golden flowers), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 entered | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 room | det |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 covered | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 walls | det |
| 9 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 covered | aux:pass |
| 11 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 room | acl:relcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 leather | case |
| 13 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 had | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 leather | det |
| 17 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 flowers | amod |
| 20 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 stamped | nsubj |
| 21 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 had | ccomp |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 stamped | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | pinks = pink | a room | then | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | |||
| 2 | cover | past · passive | the walls | with leather; in a room | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the leather | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stamp | past | golden flowers | leather | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon it=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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