Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 9
The tapestries were gorgeous, and the furniture of costly and artistic taste.
Who acts: tapestries · What happens: be
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 (tapestries), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tapestries | det |
| 2 | tapestries | tapestry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gorgeous | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gorgeous | cop |
| 4 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 furniture | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 furniture | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 furniture | det |
| 8 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gorgeous | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 taste | case |
| 10 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 taste | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 artistic | cc |
| 12 | artistic | artistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 costly | conj |
| 13 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 furniture | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gorgeous | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the tapestries | the furniture of costly taste obl; gorgeous 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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