Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 80
The swords and armor on the old knight's pictures rattled.
What happens: rattle · To what, where: pictures
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 swords | det |
| 2 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 armor | cc |
| 4 | armor | armor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swords | conj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 pictures | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 knight | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 knight | amod |
| 8 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pictures | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 knight | case |
| 10 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 swords | nmod |
| 11 | rattled | rattle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 pictures | acl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swords | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rattle | participle | the old knight's pictures not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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