Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 112
It had carved wood-work, like the Norwegian church; marble pillars, like the Grecian temple; bells in every story; and was crowned with cupolas, green and gilded, like those of the Kremlin of the Czar.
What happens: carve, crown, gild · To what, where: carriage
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carved | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carved | aux |
| 3 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 work | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 wood | punct |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carved | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 church | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 church | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 church | det |
| 10 | Norwegian | Norwegian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 church | amod |
| 11 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carved | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 pillars | punct |
| 13 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pillars | amod |
| 14 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carved | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 temple | punct |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 temple | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 temple | det |
| 18 | Grecian | grecian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 temple | amod |
| 19 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pillars | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 bells | punct |
| 21 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carved | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 story | case |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 story | det |
| 24 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bells | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 crowned | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 crowned | cc |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 crowned | aux:pass |
| 28 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 carved | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 cupolas | case |
| 30 | cupolas | cupola | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 crowned | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 green | punct |
| 32 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 crowned | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 gilded | cc |
| 34 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 green | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 those | punct |
| 36 | like | like | ADP | _ | 37 those | case |
| 37 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 crowned | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Kremlin | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Kremlin | det |
| 40 | Kremlin | Kremlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 those | nmod |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 Czar | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Czar | det |
| 43 | Czar | Czar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Kremlin | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | past · perfect · passive | carriage | like the Norwegian church; marble pillars and the Grecian temple obl; bells in every story obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary work=Product | ||||
| 2 | crown | past · passive | with cupolas; like those | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with cupola=Theme | |||||
| 3 | gild | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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