Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 103

He drew the Czar's palace; the old Kremlin at Moscow, just as it stood, with towers and cupolas; and these cupolas looked like gigantic green and gold cucumbers, at least in George's drawing.

Who acts: George, palace, cupolas · What happens: draw, stand, look · To what, where: palace

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (George, palace, cupolas), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drew	nsubj
2	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Czar	det
4	Czar	Czar	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 palace	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Czar	case
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drew	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 Kremlin	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Kremlin	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Kremlin	amod
10	Kremlin	Kremlin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 drew	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 Moscow	case
12	Moscow	Moscow	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Kremlin	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
14	just	just	ADV	_	17 stood	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 stood	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stood	nsubj
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 towers	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 towers	case
20	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stood	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cupolas	cc
22	cupolas	cupola	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 towers	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 looked	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 looked	cc
25	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 cupolas	det
26	cupolas	cupola	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 looked	nsubj
27	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
28	like	like	ADP	_	33 cucumbers	case
29	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cucumbers	amod
30	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cucumbers	amod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gold	cc
32	gold	gold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 green	conj
33	cucumbers	cucumber	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 looked	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 least	punct
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 least	case
36	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 looked	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 drawing	case
38	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 drawing	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 George	case
40	drawing	drawing	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 least	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	draw	past	George	the Czar's palace	the old Kremlin at Moscow obl	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme
2	stand	past	palace		with towers and cupolas	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	past	this cupolas		like gigantic green cucumbers; at least	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at least=Theme
4	draw		George			nom drawing «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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