Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 75
There were carpets, and rugs, and window curtains hanging to the ground.
Who acts: carpets, window curtains · What happens: be, hang
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carpets, window curtains), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | carpets | carpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rugs | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rugs | cc |
| 6 | rugs | rug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carpets | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 curtains | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 curtains | cc |
| 9 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 curtains | compound |
| 10 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 11 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 curtains | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 ground | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ground | det |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hanging | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | carpets and rugs | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hang | gerund | window curtains not said here | to the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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