Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 84

They were of clay, and in the form of two elephants, with open backs; they were hollow and filled with earth, and through the open space flowers bloomed.

Who acts: pots · What happens: be, fill, bloom, form · To what, where: open space flowers, two elephants

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 (pots), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clay	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clay	cop
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 clay	case
4	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 form	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 form	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 form	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 form	det
9	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clay	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 elephants	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 elephants	nummod
12	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 form	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 backs	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 backs	case
15	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 backs	amod
16	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 elephants	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 hollow	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hollow	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hollow	cop
20	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clay	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 filled	cc
22	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 hollow	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 earth	case
24	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 filled	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bloomed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bloomed	cc
27	through	through	ADP	_	31 flowers	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 flowers	det
29	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 flowers	amod
30	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flowers	compound
31	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 bloomed	obl
32	bloomed	bloom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 hollow	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 clay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	pots = pot			of clay	tree rules
2	is	past	pots = pot			hollow property	tree rules
3	fill	participle	pots = pot not said here			with earth	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with earth=Instrument
4	bloom	participle	pots = pot not said here		the open space flowers		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through flower=Location
5	form			two elephants and open backs			nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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