Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 21

The kitchen looked bright with its copper and tin utensils, and white plates, and from the rafters hung hams, beef, and winter stores in plenty.

Who acts: kitchen · What happens: look, hang · To what, where: hams, rafters

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 (kitchen), 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	2 kitchen	det
2	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 looked	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 copper	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 copper	nmod:poss
7	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 utensils	cc
9	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 utensils	compound
10	utensils	utensil	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 copper	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 plates	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 plates	cc
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 plates	amod
14	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 copper	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hung	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hung	cc
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 rafters	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rafters	det
19	rafters	rafter	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hung	obl
20	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
21	hams	ham	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hung	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 beef	punct
23	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hams	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stores	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stores	cc
26	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stores	compound
27	stores	store	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hung	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 plenty	case
29	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stores	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the kitchen					with kitchen's copper and tin utensils and white plates; bright property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	hang	past	the kitchen not said here	hams and beef		the rafters		winter stores in plenty obl	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ham=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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