Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 114
The candlestick was in the form of an angel holding a nosegay, in the centre of which the wax taper was to be placed.
Who acts: candlestick, angel · What happens: be, hold, place · To what, where: form, nosegay, wax taper
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (candlestick, angel), 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 candlestick | det |
| 2 | candlestick | candlestick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 form | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 form | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 form | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 form | det |
| 6 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 angel | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 angel | det |
| 9 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 form | nmod |
| 10 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 angel | acl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 nosegay | det |
| 12 | nosegay | nosegay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 holding | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 centre | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 centre | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 centre | det |
| 16 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 form | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 placed | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 taper | det |
| 20 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 taper | compound |
| 21 | taper | taper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 placed | aux:pass |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 placed | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 placed | aux:pass |
| 25 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 centre | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 form | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the candlestick | the form | of a angel | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hold | gerund | a angel not said here | a nosegay | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nosegay=Theme | ||||
| 3 | place | past · passive | the candlestick not said here | the wax taper | of the centre | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme |
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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