Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 82
The bed and the little window had curtains, and everything looked clean and neat.
Who acts: bed, everything · What happens: have, look · To what, where: curtains
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 (bed, everything), 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 bed | det |
| 2 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 window | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 window | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 window | amod |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bed | conj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 looked | cc |
| 11 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | conj |
| 13 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 looked | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 neat | cc |
| 15 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 clean | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the bed and the little window | curtains | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | past | everything | clean property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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