Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 80
The servants led him through more luxurious halls and chambers into her room, where she appeared the chief and leading ornament.
Who acts: servants, marble · What happens: lead, appear · To what, where: Providence, room, chief
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 (servants, marble), 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 servants | det |
| 2 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | obj |
| 5 | through | through | ADV | _ | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 luxurious | advmod |
| 7 | luxurious | luxurious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 halls | amod |
| 8 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 led | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 chambers | cc |
| 10 | chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 halls | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 room | nmod:poss |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 appeared | punct |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 appeared | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 appeared | nsubj |
| 17 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 led | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 chief | det |
| 19 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 appeared | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ornament | cc |
| 21 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 ornament | amod |
| 22 | ornament | ornament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chief | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the servants | Providence | marble's room | tree rules | |||
| 2 | appear | past | marble | the chief and leading ornament | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chief=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | gerund | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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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