Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 93
The ceiling was like a great palm-tree, with glass leaves of the most costly crystal, and over the centre of the floor two beds, each resembling a lily, hung from a stem of gold.
Who acts: ceiling, each · What happens: be, resemble, hang, stem · To what, where: lily, stem, gold
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 (ceiling, each), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ceiling | det |
| 2 | ceiling | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 tree | cop |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tree | amod |
| 7 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 palm | punct |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leaves | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 leaves | case |
| 12 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaves | compound |
| 13 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tree | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 crystal | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 crystal | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 costly | advmod |
| 17 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 crystal | amod |
| 18 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leaves | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 centre | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 centre | cc |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 centre | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 centre | det |
| 23 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 floor | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 floor | det |
| 26 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 centre | nmod |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 beds | nummod |
| 28 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 floor | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 resembling | punct |
| 30 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 resembling | nsubj |
| 31 | resembling | resemble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 centre | advcl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 lily | det |
| 33 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 resembling | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 hung | punct |
| 35 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 tree | conj |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 stem | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 stem | det |
| 38 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hung | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 gold | case |
| 40 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 stem | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the ceiling | like a great palm tree and glass leaves of the costly crystal and the centre of the floor and two beds | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | resemble | gerund | each | a lily | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hang | participle | the ceiling not said here | a stem of gold | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | stem | gold | nom stem «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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