Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 4

Their sister Eliza sat on a little stool of plate-glass, and had a book full of pictures, which had cost as much as half a kingdom.

Who acts: sister, pictures · What happens: sit, have, cost · To what, where: little stool, book, much

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (sister, pictures), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	nsubj
3	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 sister	appos
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 stool	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stool	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stool	amod
8	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 glass	case
10	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 glass	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 plate	punct
12	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stool	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 book	det
17	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 book	amod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 pictures	case
20	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 full	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cost	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 cost	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 cost	aux
24	cost	cost	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 pictures	acl:relcl
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cost	obj
27	as	as	ADP	_	30 kingdom	case
28	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	30 kingdom	det:predet
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 kingdom	det
30	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 much	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	brothers's sister		a little stool of plate glass		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stool=Location
2	have	past	brothers's sister not said here	a book			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient
3	cost	past · perfect	pictures	much		as half kingdom	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value

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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