Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand, sentence 1

In a poet's room, where his inkstand stood on the table, the remark was once made, "It is wonderful what can be brought out of an inkstand.

Who acts: inkstand, remark · What happens: stand, make, be, bring out · To what, where: room, remark, inkstand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pen and the Inkstand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inkstand, remark), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 room	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 poet	det
3	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 room	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 poet	case
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 room	punct
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 stood	advmod
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 inkstand	nmod:poss
9	inkstand	inkstand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	nsubj
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 table	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 table	det
13	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 made	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 remark	det
16	remark	remark	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 made	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 made	aux:pass
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 made	advmod
19	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 stood	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wonderful	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 wonderful	punct
22	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 wonderful	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 wonderful	cop
24	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 made	parataxis
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 brought	nsubj:pass
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 brought	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 brought	aux:pass
28	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 wonderful	parataxis
29	out	out	ADP	_	32 inkstand	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 inkstand	case
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 inkstand	det
32	inkstand	inkstand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brought	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	his inkstand		a poet's room	on the table	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location
2	make	past · passive		the remark		once property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	remark			wonderful property	tree rules
4	bring out in a quote	can · passive		a inkstand			tree rules

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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