Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 4

In the middle of the cupboard door was the carved figure of a man most ridiculous to look at.

What happens: carve, be, look · To what, where: carved figure, middle

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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 figure	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
6	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 door	compound
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 figure	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 figure	det
10	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 figure	amod
11	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 man	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 figure	nmod
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 ridiculous	advmod
16	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 look	mark
18	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 ridiculous	xcomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	18 look	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 figure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carve	participle				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the carved figure	the middle of the cupboard door	of a man	tree rules
3	look	to-infinitive				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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