Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 55

Here stood chairs and sofas covered with silk and velvet, which could be easily rolled about on castors; there were tables with polished marble tops, and books bound in morocco with gilt edges.

Who acts: tables, books · What happens: stand, cover, roll about, be, polish, bound · To what, where: chairs, velvet, castors, morocco

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 (tables, books), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 stood	advmod
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stood	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sofas	cc
5	sofas	sofa	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chairs	conj
6	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 chairs	acl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 silk	case
8	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 covered	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 velvet	cc
10	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 silk	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rolled	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 rolled	nsubj:pass
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 rolled	aux
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 rolled	aux:pass
15	easily	easily	ADV	_	16 rolled	advmod
16	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 velvet	acl:relcl
17	about	about	ADV	_	16 rolled	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 castors	case
19	castors	castor	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 rolled	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 were	punct
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 were	expl
22	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
23	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 were	nsubj
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 tops	case
25	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 tops	amod
26	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tops	compound
27	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 tables	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bound	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 bound	cc
30	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 bound	nsubj
31	bound	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 morocco	case
33	morocco	morocco	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bound	obl
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 edges	case
35	gilt	gilt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 edges	amod
36	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 bound	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past		chairs and sofas	here		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chair=Stimulus
2	cover	participle		chairs and sofas not said here		with silk and velvet	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with silk=Theme
3	roll about	could · passive		velvet	castors	about, easily property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme on castor=Trajectory
4	be	past	tables with polished marble tops		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	polish	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
6	bound	present	books		morocco	with gilt edges	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in morocco=Trajectory

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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