Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 75

She was very fond of walking through the great hall, where hung the portraits of her ancestors.

Who acts: thing · What happens: be, walk, hang, portray · To what, where: great hall, portraits, ancestors

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fond	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fond	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 fond	advmod
4	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 walking	mark
6	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 fond	advcl
7	through	through	ADP	_	10 hall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hall	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hall	amod
10	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hung	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 hung	advmod
13	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fond	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 portraits	det
15	portraits	portrait	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hung	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 ancestors	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 ancestors	nmod:poss
18	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 portraits	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	thing			fond property	tree rules
2	walk	gerund	thing not said here		the great hall		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hall=Trajectory
3	hang	past	thing not said here	the portraits of thing's ancestors			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portrait=Patient
4	portray			thing's ancestors			nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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