Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 34
Over the chest of drawers hung a large picture in a gilt frame, representing a landscape, with fine old trees, flowers in the grass, and a broad stream, which flowed through the wood, past several castles, far out into the wild ocean.
Who acts: broad stream · What happens: hang, represent, flow · To what, where: large picture, chest, landscape, wood
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 (broad stream), 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 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 3 chest | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chest | det |
| 3 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hung | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 drawers | case |
| 5 | drawers | drawer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chest | nmod |
| 6 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 picture | det |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 picture | amod |
| 9 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hung | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 frame | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 frame | det |
| 12 | gilt | gilt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 frame | amod |
| 13 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hung | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 representing | punct |
| 15 | representing | represent | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 hung | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 landscape | det |
| 17 | landscape | landscape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 representing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 trees | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 trees | case |
| 20 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 trees | amod |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 trees | amod |
| 22 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 landscape | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 flowers | punct |
| 24 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 trees | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 grass | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 grass | det |
| 27 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 trees | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 stream | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 stream | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 stream | det |
| 31 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 stream | amod |
| 32 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hung | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 flowed | punct |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 flowed | nsubj |
| 35 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 stream | acl:relcl |
| 36 | through | through | ADP | _ | 38 wood | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 wood | det |
| 38 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 flowed | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 castles | punct |
| 40 | past | past | ADP | _ | 42 castles | case |
| 41 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 castles | amod |
| 42 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 flowed | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 out | punct |
| 44 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 45 out | advmod |
| 45 | out | out | ADV | _ | 42 castles | advmod |
| 46 | into | into | ADP | _ | 49 ocean | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 ocean | det |
| 48 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 ocean | amod |
| 49 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 out | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | a large picture | the chest of drawers | in a gilt frame; a broad stream obl | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent picture=Theme over chest=Destination | |||
| 2 | represent | gerund | a landscape and fine old trees in the grass and flowers | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot landscape=Theme | |||||
| 3 | flow | past | a broad stream | the wood | past several castles | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=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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