Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 96
The whole vast pavement was one great festive hall, where covered tables stood laden with refreshments of all kinds, from champagne and Chartreuse down to coffee and beer.
Who acts: whole vast pavement · What happens: be, cover, lade · To what, where: one great festive hall
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 (whole vast pavement), 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 | 4 pavement | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pavement | amod |
| 3 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pavement | amod |
| 4 | pavement | pavement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hall | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hall | cop |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 hall | nummod |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hall | amod |
| 8 | festive | festive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hall | amod |
| 9 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 laden | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 stood | advmod |
| 12 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 tables | amod |
| 13 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 laden | aux:pass |
| 15 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hall | parataxis |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 refreshments | case |
| 17 | refreshments | refreshment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 laden | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 kinds | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 kinds | det |
| 20 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 refreshments | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 champagne | punct |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 champagne | case |
| 23 | champagne | champagne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laden | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Chartreuse | cc |
| 25 | Chartreuse | chartreuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 champagne | conj |
| 26 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 champagne | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 coffee | case |
| 28 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laden | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 beer | cc |
| 30 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 coffee | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 hall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the whole vast pavement | one great festive hall | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | lade | past · passive | with refreshments of all kinds; to coffee and beer | 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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