Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 3

It was covered from top to bottom with carved roses and tulips; the most curious scrolls were drawn upon it, and out of them peeped little stags' heads, with antlers.

What happens: cover, carve, draw, peep · To what, where: cupboard, top, curious scrolls, heads

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: 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 covered	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 covered	aux:pass
3	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 top	case
5	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covered	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 bottom	case
7	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 top	nmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 roses	case
9	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 roses	amod
10	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 covered	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tulips	cc
12	tulips	tulip	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 roses	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 drawn	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 scrolls	det
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 curious	advmod
16	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 scrolls	amod
17	scrolls	scroll	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 drawn	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 drawn	aux:pass
19	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 covered	parataxis
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 drawn	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 peeped	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 peeped	cc
24	out	out	ADP	_	26 them	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 peeped	obl
27	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 drawn	conj
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 stags	amod
29	stags	stag	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 heads	nmod:poss
30	'	's	PART	_	29 stags	case
31	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 peeped	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 antlers	punct
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 antlers	case
34	antlers	antler	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 peeped	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive	cupboard	top to bottom	with carved roses and tulips	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with rose=Theme
2	carve	participle				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	draw	past · passive	the curious scrolls		upon cupboard	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	peep	past	little stags's heads		out scrolls = scroll; with antlers	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme

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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