Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 1

Have you ever seen an old wooden cupboard quite black with age, and ornamented with carved foliage and curious figures?

Who acts: you · What happens: see, ornament, carve · To what, where: old wooden cupboard

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 seen	nsubj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 seen	advmod
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cupboard	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cupboard	amod
7	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cupboard	amod
8	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obj
9	quite	quite	ADV	_	10 black	advmod
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cupboard	amod
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 age	case
12	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 black	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ornamented	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ornamented	cc
15	ornamented	ornament	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 seen	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 foliage	case
17	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 foliage	amod
18	foliage	foliage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ornamented	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 figures	cc
20	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 figures	amod
21	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 foliage	conj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	present · perfect	you	a old wooden cupboard	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cupboard=Stimulus
2	ornament	participle	you not said here			with carved foliage and curious figures	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with foliage=Theme
3	carve	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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