Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 75
He stepped into the great lofty hall, whose walls and ceilings shone with gilding and bright colors and heraldic devices.
Who acts: Providence · What happens: step, shine · To what, where: great lofty hall, walls
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 (Providence), 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 stepped | nsubj |
| 2 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 hall | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hall | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hall | amod |
| 6 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hall | amod |
| 7 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stepped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 walls | punct |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 walls | nmod:poss |
| 10 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hall | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ceilings | cc |
| 12 | ceilings | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 walls | conj |
| 13 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 walls | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 gilding | case |
| 15 | gilding | gilding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shone | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 colors | cc |
| 17 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 colors | amod |
| 18 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gilding | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 devices | cc |
| 20 | heraldic | heraldic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 devices | amod |
| 21 | devices | device | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 colors | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | Providence | the great lofty hall and the great lofty hall and the great lofty hall's walls and ceilings's walls and ceilings | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hall=Destination | ||||
| 2 | shine | participle | the great lofty hall and the great lofty hall and walls's walls and ceilings's walls and ceilings not said here | with gilding and bright colors and heraldic devices | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gilding=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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