Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 37
And there are still, even now, these serviceable cords behind other embroidered bell-ropes.
Who acts: serviceable cords · What happens: be, embroider
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serviceable cords), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 are | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 are | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 now | punct |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 now | advmod |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 are | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cords | punct |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 cords | det |
| 10 | serviceable | serviceable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cords | amod |
| 11 | cords | cord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 are | nsubj |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 17 ropes | case |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ropes | amod |
| 14 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 ropes | amod |
| 15 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ropes | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 bell | punct |
| 17 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cords | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | this serviceable cords behind other embroidered bell ropes | there | still; now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | embroider | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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