Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 9
Here were a clothes cupboard, and an arm-chair, and even a chest of drawers; and on these drawers a polished metal plate had been placed, whereon was engraved the word "Grubbe," and this was the name of the noble family that had lived in the house of old.
Who acts: this, noble family · What happens: be, polish, place, engrave, live · To what, where: clothes cupboard, polished metal plate, drawers, word, name, house
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, noble family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 cupboard | advmod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cupboard | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cupboard | det |
| 4 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 cupboard | compound |
| 5 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 chair | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 chair | cc |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 chair | det |
| 9 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chair | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 arm | punct |
| 11 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cupboard | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 chest | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 chest | cc |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 chest | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 chest | det |
| 16 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cupboard | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 drawers | case |
| 18 | drawers | drawer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 chest | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 placed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 placed | cc |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 drawers | case |
| 22 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 drawers | det |
| 23 | drawers | drawer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 placed | obl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 plate | det |
| 25 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 plate | amod |
| 26 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 plate | compound |
| 27 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 placed | aux |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 placed | aux:pass |
| 30 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cupboard | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 engraved | punct |
| 32 | whereon | whereon | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 engraved | advmod |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 engraved | aux:pass |
| 34 | engraved | engrave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 placed | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 word | det |
| 36 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 engraved | obj |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 Grubbe | punct |
| 38 | Grubbe | Grubbe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 word | appos |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Grubbe | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 Grubbe | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 name | cc |
| 42 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 name | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 name | cop |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 name | det |
| 45 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 word | conj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 family | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 family | det |
| 48 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 family | amod |
| 49 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 name | nmod |
| 50 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 52 lived | nsubj |
| 51 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 lived | aux |
| 52 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 49 family | acl:relcl |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 55 house | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 house | det |
| 55 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 lived | obl |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 old | case |
| 57 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 house | nmod |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cupboard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a clothes cupboard and a arm chair and a chest of drawers | here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | polish | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | place | past · perfect · passive | a polished metal plate | this drawers | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on drawer=Destination | ||||
| 4 | engrave | past · passive | the word and the name | whereon property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: word=Destination | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | this | the name | of the noble family | tree rules | |||
| 6 | live | past · perfect | the noble family | the house of old | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
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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