Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 46

On the wall near the centre of the room hung the picture of a beautiful lady, young and gay, dressed in the fashion of the olden times, with powdered hair, and a full, stiff skirt.

What happens: hang, dress, powder · To what, where: picture, wall, fashion

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	On	on	ADP	_	3 wall	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wall	det
3	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hung	obl
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 centre	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 centre	det
6	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wall	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 centre	nmod
10	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 picture	det
12	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hung	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 lady	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lady	det
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lady	amod
16	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 picture	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 young	punct
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lady	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gay	cc
20	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 young	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dressed	punct
22	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 picture	acl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 fashion	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fashion	det
25	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dressed	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 times	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 times	det
28	olden	olden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 times	amod
29	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fashion	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hair	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 hair	case
32	powdered	powder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 hair	amod
33	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dressed	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 skirt	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 skirt	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 skirt	det
37	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 skirt	amod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 full	punct
39	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 skirt	amod
40	skirt	skirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hung	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	past	the picture of a beautiful lady	the wall near the centre of the room	a full stiff skirt obl	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent picture=Theme on wall=Destination
2	dress	participle	the picture of a beautiful lady not said here	the fashion of the olden times	with powdered hair	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	powder	participle				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: 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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