Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 14

Close to them stood another figure, three times as large as they were, and also made of china.

Who acts: you, marks · What happens: close, stand, make · To what, where: figure, marks

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, marks), 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	Close	close	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 stood	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Close	advcl
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 figure	det
6	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 times	punct
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 times	nummod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 figure	appos
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 large	advmod
11	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 times	amod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 made	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux:pass
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
17	also	also	ADV	_	18 made	advmod
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 large	advcl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 china	case
20	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Close	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	close	imperative	you not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	stand	past	marks = mark	another figure		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus
3	make	past · passive		marks = mark	of china	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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