Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 59
It was all old lumber, especially two portraits--one representing a man in a scarlet coat with a wig, and the other a lady with powdered and curled hair holding a rose in her hand, each of them being surrounded by a large wreath of willow branches.
Who acts: motto, one, other lady, curled hair, large wreath · What happens: be, represent, powder, curl, hold, surround · To what, where: old lumber, man, curled hair, rose, hand, each
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 (motto, one, other lady, curled hair), 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 | 5 lumber | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lumber | cop |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 lumber | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lumber | amod |
| 5 | lumber | lumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 portraits | punct |
| 7 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 9 portraits | advmod |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 portraits | nummod |
| 9 | portraits | portrait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lumber | appos |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 representing | punct |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 representing | nsubj |
| 12 | representing | represent | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 portraits | acl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 representing | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 coat | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 coat | det |
| 17 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 coat | compound |
| 18 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 representing | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 wig | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 wig | det |
| 21 | wig | wig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 representing | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lady | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 lady | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 other | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lady | amod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 lady | det |
| 27 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lumber | conj |
| 28 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 29 powdered | mark |
| 29 | powdered | powder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 lady | acl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 hair | cc |
| 31 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 hair | amod |
| 32 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 powdered | obj |
| 33 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 hair | acl |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 rose | det |
| 35 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 holding | obj |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 hand | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 hand | nmod:poss |
| 38 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 holding | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 each | punct |
| 40 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 them | case |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 each | nmod |
| 43 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 44 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lumber | parataxis |
| 45 | by | by | ADP | _ | 48 wreath | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 wreath | det |
| 47 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 wreath | amod |
| 48 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 branches | case |
| 50 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 branches | compound |
| 51 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 wreath | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lumber | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | motto | all old lumber and a other lady | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | represent | gerund | one | a man | with a wig; in a scarlet coat | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot man=Theme in coat=Attribute | |||
| 3 | powder | participle | a other lady not said here | curled hair | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 4 | curl | participle | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | hold | gerund | curled hair not said here | a rose | passage's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rose=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 6 | surround | gerund · passive | a large wreath of willow branches | each | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-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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