Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 100
They next entered a large hall built of silver and gold.
Who acts: spiders · What happens: enter, build · To what, where: large hall
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spiders), 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 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | next | next | ADV | _ | 3 entered | advmod |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hall | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hall | amod |
| 6 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 7 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hall | acl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 silver | case |
| 9 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 built | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gold | cc |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 silver | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | spiders = spider | a large hall | next property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination | |||
| 2 | build | participle | a large hall not said here | of silver and gold | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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