Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 77

He told them what had brought him to the palace, and was conducted up the shining marble staircase, covered with soft carpets and adorned with many a statue.

Who acts: Providence · What happens: tell, bring, conduct up, shine, cover, adorn · To what, where: men, Providence, shining marble staircase · Speech: someone speaks here

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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 brought	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 brought	aux
6	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 told	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 brought	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 conducted	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 conducted	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 conducted	aux:pass
14	conducted	conduct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 told	parataxis
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 conducted	compound:prt
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 staircase	det
17	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 staircase	amod
18	marble	marble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 staircase	amod
19	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 conducted	obl:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 covered	punct
21	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 conducted	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 carpets	case
23	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 carpets	amod
24	carpets	carpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 covered	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 adorned	cc
26	adorned	adorn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 covered	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 statue	case
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 statue	amod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 statue	det
30	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 adorned	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Providence		men = man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	bring	past · perfect · passive			Providence	to the palace	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination
3	conduct up	past · passive		the shining marble staircase			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»
4	shine	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cover	participle				with soft carpets	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with carpet=Theme
6	adorn	participle				with a many statue	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with statue=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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