Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 106

He drew two Grecian temples with slender marble pillars, and with steps all round them.

Who acts: George · What happens: draw, round · To what, where: two Grecian temples, temples

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), 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	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 temples	nummod
4	Grecian	grecian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 temples	amod
5	temples	temple	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drew	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 pillars	case
7	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pillars	amod
8	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pillars	compound
9	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 temples	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 round	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 round	cc
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 steps	case
13	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 round	obl
14	all	all	ADV	_	15 round	advmod
15	round	round	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	2 drew	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 round	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	draw	past	George	two Grecian temples				with slender marble pillars	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temple=Theme
2	round	present	George not said here	temples = temple				with steps; all property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with step=Instrument

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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