Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 105

The throne itself was made of milk-white glass, and the cushions were little black mice, each biting the other's tail.

Who acts: cushions · What happens: make, be, bite · To what, where: throne, little black mice

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 (cushions), 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 throne	det
2	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
3	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	2 throne	nmod:unmarked
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 glass	case
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 glass	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 milk	punct
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 glass	amod
10	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mice	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 mice	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cushions	det
14	cushions	cushion	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 mice	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 mice	cop
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mice	amod
17	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 mice	amod
18	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tail	punct
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	25 tail	det
21	biting	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 tail	amod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 other	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tail	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 other	case
25	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mice	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		the throne throne	of milk white glass	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	is a	past	the cushions	little black mice and the other's biting tail		tree rules
3	bite	gerund				vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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