Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 115
It was to stand on a green writing table, in a very pleasant room; many books were scattered about, and splendid paintings hung on the walls.
Who acts: candlestick · What happens: be, scatter, hang · To what, where: green writing table, many books, splendid paintings, walls
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), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stand | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stand | cop |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 stand | mark |
| 4 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 table | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 table | det |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 table | amod |
| 8 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 table | compound |
| 9 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stand | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 room | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 room | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 room | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 pleasant | advmod |
| 14 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 room | amod |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stand | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 scattered | punct |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 books | amod |
| 18 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 scattered | aux:pass |
| 20 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stand | conj |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 scattered | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 paintings | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 paintings | cc |
| 24 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 paintings | amod |
| 25 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 scattered | parataxis |
| 26 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 paintings | acl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 walls | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 walls | det |
| 29 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 hung | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | candlestick | a green writing table | in a pleasant room; stand property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | scatter | past · passive | many books | about property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hang | participle | splendid paintings not said here | the walls | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location |
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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