Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 123

There they were on the wall as if blown up there; and as a real expert said that they were painted by a master's hand, they remained there and were restored. "

Who acts: pictures, hand · What happens: be, blow up, say, paint, remain, restore · To what, where: wall, pictures · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pictures, hand), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 were	expl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 were	nsubj
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 remained	advcl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 wall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wall	det
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 were	obl
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 blown	mark
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 blown	mark
9	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 were	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 blown	compound:prt
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 blown	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 expert	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 expert	det
16	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 expert	amod
17	expert	expert	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	obl
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 were	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 painted	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 painted	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 painted	aux:pass
22	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 said	ccomp
23	by	by	ADP	_	27 hand	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 master	det
25	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hand	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 master	case
27	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 painted	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 remained	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 remained	nsubj
30	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 remained	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 restored	cc
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 restored	aux:pass
34	restored	restore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 remained	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 remained	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	pictures = picture		the wall; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wall=Location
2	blow up	participle	pictures = picture not said here		there		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	pictures = picture not said here			as a real expert	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	paint	past · passive	a master's hand	pictures = picture			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination
5	remain	past	pictures = picture		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	restore	past · passive	pictures = picture not said here				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»

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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