Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 112
Were the chambers like a starry sky seen from the top of a high mountain?"
What happens: be, see · To what, where: chambers, starry sky, top
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chambers | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chambers | det |
| 3 | chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 sky | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sky | det |
| 6 | starry | starry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sky | amod |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chambers | nmod |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sky | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 top | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 top | det |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mountain | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mountain | det |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mountain | amod |
| 15 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 top | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 chambers | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 chambers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the chambers | like a starry sky | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | participle | a starry sky not said here | the top of a high mountain | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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