Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 54
Inside, in the hall, valuable oil paintings were hanging on the walls.
Who acts: valuable oil paintings · What happens: hang · To what, where: hall
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 (valuable oil paintings), 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 | Inside | inside | ADV | _ | 11 hanging | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Inside | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hall | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hall | det |
| 5 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hanging | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hall | punct |
| 7 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 paintings | amod |
| 8 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 paintings | compound |
| 9 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hanging | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hanging | aux |
| 11 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 walls | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 walls | det |
| 14 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hanging | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hanging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past · progressive | valuable oil paintings | the hall | on the walls; inside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location |
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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