Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 89
They now came into the first hall, the walls of which were hung with rose-colored satin, embroidered with artificial flowers.
Who acts: hearts · What happens: come, hang, color, embroider · To what, where: first hall, colored satin
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearts), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 hall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hall | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 hall | amod |
| 7 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 walls | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 walls | det |
| 10 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hall | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 hung | obl |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hung | aux:pass |
| 14 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 walls | acl:relcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 satin | case |
| 16 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 colored | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 rose | punct |
| 18 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 satin | amod |
| 19 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hung | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 embroidered | punct |
| 21 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 satin | acl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 flowers | case |
| 23 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 flowers | amod |
| 24 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 embroidered | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | hearts = heart | the first hall and the walls | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | hang | past · passive | of the walls; with colored satin | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | color | participle | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | embroider | participle | colored satin not said here | with artificial flowers | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=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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