Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 7
Through the small windows the rooms could be seen.
What happens: see · To what, where: rooms, small windows
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 4 windows | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 windows | det |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 windows | amod |
| 4 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seen | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rooms | det |
| 6 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seen | aux:pass |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could · passive | the rooms | the small windows | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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