Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 23
Great inscriptions in letters a yard long, and figures in various colors, covering the walls from cornice to basement, came brightly out.
Who acts: various colors, Great inscriptions · What happens: cover, come · To what, where: walls, cornice
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (various colors, Great inscriptions), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 inscriptions | amod |
| 2 | inscriptions | inscription | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 came | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 letters | case |
| 4 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 inscriptions | nmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 yard | det |
| 6 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 long | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 letters | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 figures | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 figures | cc |
| 10 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 inscriptions | appos |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 colors | case |
| 12 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 colors | amod |
| 13 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 figures | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 colors | punct |
| 15 | covering | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 colors | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 walls | det |
| 17 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 covering | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 cornice | case |
| 19 | cornice | cornice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 covering | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 basement | case |
| 21 | basement | basement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 covering | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 inscriptions | punct |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 25 out | advmod |
| 25 | out | out | ADV | _ | 23 came | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | gerund | various colors not said here | the walls | cornice | to basement | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Destination | ||
| 2 | come | past | Great inscriptions in letters | out property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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