Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 99
Then the king opened the door of a little chamber in which she was to sleep; it was adorned with rich green tapestry, and resembled the cave in which he had found her.
Who acts: king, smile · What happens: open, be, adorn, resemble, find · To what, where: door, little chamber, cave, smile
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (king, smile), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 opened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 chamber | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 chamber | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 chamber | amod |
| 10 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 door | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 sleep | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sleep | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sleep | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sleep | mark |
| 16 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 chamber | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 adorned | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 adorned | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 adorned | aux:pass |
| 20 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 opened | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 tapestry | case |
| 22 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tapestry | amod |
| 23 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tapestry | amod |
| 24 | tapestry | tapestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 adorned | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 resembled | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 resembled | cc |
| 27 | resembled | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cave | det |
| 29 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 resembled | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 which | case |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 found | obl |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 found | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 found | aux |
| 34 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 cave | acl:relcl |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 found | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the king | the door of a little chamber | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | smile | a little chamber | sleep property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | adorn | past · passive | door | with rich green tapestry | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with tapestry=Theme | ||||
| 4 | resemble | past | the king not said here | the cave | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find | past · perfect | king | smile | the cave | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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