Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 47
A footman dressed in silk and velvet stood with a large silver-mounted rod near the entrance.
Who acts: footman · What happens: dress, stand, mount · To what, where: footman, silk, large mounted rod, entrance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (footman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:35): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 footman | det |
| 2 | footman | footman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 footman | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 silk | case |
| 5 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dressed | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 velvet | cc |
| 7 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 silk | conj |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 silver | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rod | det |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rod | amod |
| 12 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mounted | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 mounted | punct |
| 14 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 rod | amod |
| 15 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 entrance | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 entrance | det |
| 18 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | participle | a footman not said here | silk and velvet | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | a footman | a large mounted rod | the entrance | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near entrance=Location | |||
| 3 | mount | participle | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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