Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 77

There was a velvet chair, and a looking-glass against the wall, into which a person might be in danger of stepping, for it was as large as a door.

Who acts: velvet chair, wall, chair · What happens: be, look, step · To what, where: looking glass, danger

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 (velvet chair, wall, chair), 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 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chair	det
4	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chair	compound
5	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 glass	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 glass	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 glass	det
9	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 glass	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 looking	punct
11	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
12	against	against	ADP	_	14 wall	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wall	det
14	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 glass	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 danger	punct
16	into	into	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 danger	nsubj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 person	det
19	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 danger	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 danger	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 danger	cop
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 danger	case
23	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wall	appos
24	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 stepping	mark
25	stepping	step	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 danger	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 large	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 large	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 large	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 large	cop
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 large	advmod
31	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stepping	conj
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 door	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 door	det
34	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 large	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a velvet chair	a looking glass against the wall	there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	might	the wall		danger		tree rules
4	step	gerund	the wall not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	chair			as a door; large property	tree rules

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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