Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 50
Many portraits hang there that none seem to trouble themselves about.
Who acts: Many portraits, none · What happens: hang, seem · To what, where: trouble
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 (Many portraits, none), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 portraits | amod |
| 2 | portraits | portrait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hang | nsubj |
| 3 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 hang | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 seem | mark |
| 6 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 7 seem | nsubj |
| 7 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hang | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 trouble | mark |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seem | obj |
| 10 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 9 trouble | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 seem | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | present | Many portraits | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | none | trouble portraits | about property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trouble=Attribute |
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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