Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 4
On the walls hung pictures of knights in armour and proud ladies in gorgeous dresses; the most stately of all walked about alive.
What happens: hang, walk · To what, where: pictures, walls
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 walls | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 walls | det |
| 3 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hung | obl |
| 4 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hung | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 knights | case |
| 7 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pictures | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 armour | case |
| 9 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knights | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ladies | cc |
| 11 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ladies | amod |
| 12 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 armour | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 dresses | case |
| 14 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dresses | amod |
| 15 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ladies | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 walked | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 walked | det |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 stately | advmod |
| 19 | stately | stately | ADV | _ | 22 walked | advmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 all | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 walked | advmod |
| 22 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hung | conj |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 alive | advmod |
| 24 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 walked | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | pictures of knights in armour and proud ladies in gorgeous dresses | the walls | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent picture=Theme on wall=Destination | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | alive, stately property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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