Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 66
As if shut up in a cage, I stand among the high houses, which I now know by heart, with their inscriptions, signs, and placards; all the painted confectionery, that is no longer to my taste.
Who acts: I, that, Houses · What happens: shut up, stand, know, paint, be, inscribe · To what, where: cage, painted confectionery, high houses
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 (I, that, Houses), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 shut | mark |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 shut | mark |
| 3 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 stand | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 shut | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cage | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cage | det |
| 7 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shut | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 shut | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 stand | nsubj |
| 10 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 houses | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 houses | det |
| 13 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 houses | amod |
| 14 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stand | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 know | obj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 know | advmod |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 houses | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 heart | case |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 know | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 inscriptions | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 inscriptions | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 inscriptions | nmod:poss |
| 25 | inscriptions | inscription | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 know | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 signs | punct |
| 27 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 inscriptions | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 placards | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 placards | cc |
| 30 | placards | placard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 inscriptions | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 confectionery | punct |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 confectionery | det:predet |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 confectionery | det |
| 34 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 confectionery | amod |
| 35 | confectionery | confectionery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stand | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 taste | punct |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 taste | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 taste | cop |
| 39 | no | no | ADV | _ | 40 longer | advmod |
| 40 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 43 taste | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 taste | case |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 taste | nmod:poss |
| 43 | taste | taste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 confectionery | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut up | participle | I not said here | a cage | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stand | present | I | all painted confectionery and my taste | the high houses | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among house=Location | |||
| 3 | know | present | I | the high houses | now | by heart; with Houses's inscriptions and signs and placards | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | that | to my taste; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | inscribe | Houses = house | nom inscription «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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