Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 10

Then the little ship that hung from the roof of the choir was let down and looked wonderfully large and beautiful with its silken sails and rigging:

Who acts: little ship · What happens: hang, let down, look, rig · To what, where: roof, little ship

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little ship), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 let	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ship	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ship	amod
4	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 let	nsubj:pass
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 hung	nsubj
6	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ship	acl:relcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 roof	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roof	det
9	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hung	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 choir	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 choir	det
12	choir	choir	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 roof	nmod
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 let	aux:pass
14	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 let	compound:prt
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 looked	cc
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 let	conj
18	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	_	19 large	advmod
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 looked	xcomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 beautiful	cc
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 large	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 sails	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sails	nmod:poss
24	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sails	amod
25	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 beautiful	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 rigging	cc
27	rigging	rig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 large	conj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past	the little ship		the roof of the choir			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	let down	past · passive		the little ship		then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	look	past					large property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	rig	gerund						tree rules

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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