Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 14

The staircase was of cast iron, spiral, broad and easy.

Who acts: staircase · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (staircase), 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 staircase	det
2	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 iron	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 iron	cop
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 iron	case
5	cast	cast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 iron	compound
6	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spiral	punct
8	spiral	spiral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 iron	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 broad	punct
10	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spiral	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 easy	cc
12	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 spiral	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 iron	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the staircase					of cast iron	tree rules
2	be		the staircase not said here						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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