Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 2

The Virgin Mary, with a golden crown on her head and the child Jesus in her arms, stood lifelike on the altar; the holy Apostles had been carved in the choir, and on the walls there were portraits of the old burgomasters and councillors of Skjagen; the pulpit was of carved work.

Who acts: Virgin Mary, pulpit · What happens: stand, carve, be, portray · To what, where: lifelike, altar, holy Apostles, choir, old burgomasters

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Virgin Mary, pulpit), 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 Mary	det
2	Virgin	Virgin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mary	compound
3	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 stood	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 crown	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 crown	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 crown	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crown	amod
8	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Mary	appos
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 head	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crown	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 child	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 child	det
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 head	conj
15	Jesus	Jesus	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 head	appos
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 arms	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 arms	nmod:poss
18	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 Jesus	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Mary	punct
20	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	lifelike	lifelike	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stood	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 altar	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 altar	det
24	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stood	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 carved	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Apostles	det
27	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Apostles	amod
28	Apostles	Apostle	PROPN	Number=Plur	31 carved	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 carved	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 carved	aux:pass
31	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 stood	parataxis
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 choir	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 choir	det
34	choir	choir	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 carved	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 walls	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 walls	cc
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 walls	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 walls	det
39	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stood	obl
40	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	41 were	expl
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 walls	acl:relcl
42	portraits	portrait	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 were	nsubj
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 burgomasters	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 burgomasters	det
45	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 burgomasters	amod
46	burgomasters	burgomaster	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 portraits	nmod
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 councillors	cc
48	councillors	councillor	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 burgomasters	conj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 Skjagen	case
50	Skjagen	Skjagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 councillors	nmod
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 work	punct
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 pulpit	det
53	pulpit	pulpit	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 work	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 work	cop
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 work	case
56	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 work	amod
57	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stood	parataxis
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the Virgin Mary	lifelike	the altar	on the walls	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lifelike=Theme on altar=Destination
2	carve	past · perfect · passive		the holy Apostles	the choir		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in choir=Destination
3	carve	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the pulpit			of carved work	tree rules
5	portray			the old burgomasters and councillors of Skjagen			nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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