Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 19
Such a scene was really very pleasant; and the shield on the new court-house was hung with flowers and green wreaths.
Who acts: scene · What happens: be, hang · To what, where: shield
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scene), 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 scene | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 scene | det |
| 3 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pleasant | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pleasant | cop |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 pleasant | advmod |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 pleasant | advmod |
| 7 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 hung | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hung | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shield | det |
| 11 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hung | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 house | amod |
| 15 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 house | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 court | punct |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shield | nmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hung | aux:pass |
| 19 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 pleasant | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 flowers | case |
| 21 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hung | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wreaths | cc |
| 23 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 wreaths | amod |
| 24 | wreaths | wreath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 flowers | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleasant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | such scene | pleasant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hang | past · passive | the shield on the new court house | with flowers and green wreaths | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with flower=Instrument |
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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