Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 104
In the middle of the floor stood a throne supported by four skeleton horses, whose harness had been made by fiery-red spiders.
Who acts: fiery spiders · What happens: stand, support, make · To what, where: throne, middle, harness
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 (fiery 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 floor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 floor | det |
| 6 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 throne | det |
| 9 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 10 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 throne | acl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 horses | case |
| 12 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 horses | nummod |
| 13 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 horses | compound |
| 14 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 supported | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 16 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 17 harness | nmod:poss |
| 17 | harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 made | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 made | aux:pass |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 horses | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 spiders | case |
| 22 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 spiders | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 red | punct |
| 24 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fiery | conj |
| 25 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 made | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a throne | the middle of the floor | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent throne=Theme in middle=Destination | ||||
| 2 | support | participle | a throne not said here | by four skeleton horses | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect · passive | fiery spiders | harness | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
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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