Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Visit, sentence 46
If on the glasses there stood written 'oblivion,' on the barrel 'remembrance' is inscribed.
Who acts: glasses · What happens: stand, write, inscribe · To what, where: written oblivion, remembrance, barrel
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glasses), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 stood | mark |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 glasses | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 glasses | det |
| 4 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 glasses | advmod |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 inscribed | advcl |
| 7 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 oblivion | amod |
| 8 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 7 written | case |
| 9 | oblivion | oblivion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 barrel | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 barrel | det |
| 14 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 inscribed | obl |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 remembrance | punct |
| 16 | remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 inscribed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 remembrance | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 inscribed | aux:pass |
| 19 | inscribed | inscribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 inscribed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand a condition, not said to happen | past | the glasses | written oblivion | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oblivion=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | inscribe | present · passive | remembrance | the barrel | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on barrel=Destination |
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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