Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 52
The large flight of steps which led to the entrance looked like a bower covered with roses and broad-leaved plants.
Who acts: steps, large flight · What happens: lead, look, cover, leav · To what, where: bower
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 (steps, large flight), 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 | 3 flight | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flight | amod |
| 3 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 steps | case |
| 5 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flight | nmod |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 led | nsubj |
| 7 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 steps | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 entrance | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 entrance | det |
| 10 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 led | obl |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 bower | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bower | det |
| 14 | bower | bower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 15 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 bower | acl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 roses | case |
| 17 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 covered | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 plants | cc |
| 19 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 leaved | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 broad | punct |
| 21 | leaved | leav | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 plants | amod |
| 22 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 roses | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | steps | to the entrance | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to entrance=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the large flight of steps | like a bower | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cover | participle | a bower not said here | with roses and leaved plants | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with rose=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leav | participle | tree rules |
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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