Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 51
It had a splendid view, and was large and magnificent; its window panes were so clear that one might have thought there were none there at all.
Who acts: mansion, window panes, none · What happens: have, be, think · To what, where: splendid view, one · 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 (mansion, window panes, none), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 view | det |
| 4 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 view | amod |
| 5 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 large | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 large | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 large | cop |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 had | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 magnificent | cc |
| 11 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 large | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 clear | punct |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 panes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 panes | compound |
| 15 | panes | pane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 clear | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 clear | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 clear | advmod |
| 18 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 large | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 thought | mark |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 thought | aux |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 thought | aux |
| 23 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 clear | csubj |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 were | expl |
| 25 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 thought | ccomp |
| 26 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 25 were | nsubj |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 none | advmod |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 all | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 none | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | mansion | a splendid view | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | large property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | is | past | mansion's window panes | clear property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | might · perfect · passive | one | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | be | past | none | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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