Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 55
All around stood figures of the most beautiful stone--that could be seen in their clothes as well as in their faces; every flower-bed had a different shape, and represented a fish, or a coat of arms, or a monogram.
Who acts: flower bed · What happens: stand, see, have, represent, figure · To what, where: figures, clothes, different shape, fish, beautiful stone
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flower bed), 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 | All | all | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 2 | around | around | ADV | _ | 3 stood | advmod |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 stone | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stone | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 beautiful | advmod |
| 8 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stone | amod |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 figures | nmod |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 seen | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seen | aux:pass |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 figures | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 clothes | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 seen | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 23 faces | cc |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 as | fixed |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 faces | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 faces | nmod:poss |
| 23 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 seen | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 had | punct |
| 25 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 bed | det |
| 26 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bed | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 flower | punct |
| 28 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 had | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 shape | det |
| 31 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 shape | amod |
| 32 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 had | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 represented | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 represented | cc |
| 35 | represented | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 fish | det |
| 37 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 represented | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 coat | punct |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 coat | cc |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 coat | det |
| 41 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 represented | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 arms | case |
| 43 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 coat | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 monogram | punct |
| 45 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 47 monogram | cc |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 monogram | det |
| 47 | monogram | monogram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 represented | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | figures of the beautiful stone | all, around property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | could · passive | figures of the beautiful stone | figures's clothes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | past | every flower bed | a different shape | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Patient | ||||
| 4 | represent | past | a fish | a coat of arms obl; a monogram obl | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fish=Theme | ||||
| 5 | figure | the beautiful stone | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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