Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 38

Chairs handsomely carved, with elbows on each side, and with very high backs, stood in the room, and as they creaked they seemed to say, "Sit down.

Who acts: Chairs · What happens: carve, stand, creak, seem, say, sit down · To what, where: room · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Chairs), 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	Chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carved	nsubj
2	handsomely	handsomely	ADV	_	3 carved	advmod
3	carved	carve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 elbows	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 elbows	case
6	elbows	elbow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carved	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 side	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 side	det
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 elbows	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stood	cc
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 backs	case
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 high	advmod
14	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 backs	amod
15	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stood	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 backs	punct
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carved	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 room	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 room	det
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seemed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 seemed	cc
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 creaked	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 creaked	nsubj
25	creaked	creak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 seemed	advcl
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seemed	nsubj
27	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stood	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 say	mark
29	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 seemed	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Sit	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 Sit	punct
32	Sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 say	ccomp
33	down	down	ADP	_	32 Sit	compound:prt
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	carve	past	Chairs		with elbows on each side; handsomely property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stand	past	Chairs not said here	the room	with high backs	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location
3	creak	past	Chairs = chair			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	seem	past	Chairs = chair			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Chairs = chair not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	sit down in a quote	infinitive				vn assuming_position-50 «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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