Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 118
The tavern consisted of a vaulted chamber, almost like a cavern, in the ruins.
Who acts: tavern · What happens: consist, vault · To what, where: ruins
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tavern), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tavern | det |
| 2 | tavern | tavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consisted | nsubj |
| 3 | consisted | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 chamber | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chamber | det |
| 6 | vaulted | vault | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 chamber | amod |
| 7 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consisted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cavern | punct |
| 9 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 12 cavern | advmod |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 cavern | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cavern | det |
| 12 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consisted | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ruins | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 ruins | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ruins | det |
| 16 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 consisted | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | past | the tavern | the ruins | of a vaulted chamber; like a cavern | tree rules | |||
| 2 | vault | participle | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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