Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 164

Look at these Chinese," and then the whole umbrella appeared like a large china bowl, with blue trees and pointed bridges, upon which stood little Chinamen nodding their heads. "

Who acts: you, whole umbrella, little Chinamen · What happens: look, appear, stand, nod · To what, where: little Chinamen, heads

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, whole umbrella, little Chinamen), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 Chinese	case
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 Chinese	det
4	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Look	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 appeared	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 appeared	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 umbrella	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 umbrella	amod
11	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 appeared	nsubj
12	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	conj
13	like	like	ADP	_	17 bowl	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bowl	det
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bowl	amod
16	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bowl	compound
17	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 appeared	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 trees	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 trees	case
20	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 trees	amod
21	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bowl	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bridges	cc
23	pointed	pointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bridges	amod
24	bridges	bridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bowl	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stood	punct
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 stood	nsubj
28	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 appeared	conj
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Chinamen	amod
30	Chinamen	chinaman	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 stood	obj
31	nodding	nod	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 Chinamen	acl
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 heads	nmod:poss
33	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 nodding	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here			at this Chinese	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at chinese=Theme
2	appear in a quote	past	the whole umbrella		then	like a large china bowl and blue trees and pointed bridges	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stand in a quote	past		little Chinamen			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chinaman=Stimulus
4	nod in a quote	gerund	little Chinamen not said here	Chinamen's heads			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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