Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 23

In the kitchen were frogs roasting on the spit, and dishes preparing of snail skins, with children's fingers in them, salad of mushroom seed, hemlock, noses and marrow of mice, beer from the marsh woman's brewery, and sparkling salt-petre wine from the grave cellars.

Who acts: kitchen frogs, dishes · What happens: be, roast, prepare, sparkle · To what, where: kitchen frogs, brewery, petre wine, grave cellars

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kitchen frogs, dishes), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 kitchen	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kitchen	det
3	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frogs	compound
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frogs	cop
5	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	roasting	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 frogs	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 spit	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spit	det
9	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roasting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dishes	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dishes	cc
12	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 frogs	conj
13	preparing	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 dishes	acl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 skins	case
15	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 skins	compound
16	skins	skin	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 preparing	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fingers	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 fingers	case
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fingers	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 children	case
21	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 preparing	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fingers	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 salad	punct
25	salad	salad	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fingers	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 seed	case
27	mushroom	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seed	compound
28	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 salad	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hemlock	punct
30	hemlock	hemlock	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seed	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 noses	punct
32	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fingers	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 marrow	cc
34	marrow	marrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fingers	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 mice	case
36	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 marrow	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 beer	punct
38	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fingers	conj
39	from	from	ADP	_	44 brewery	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 woman	det
41	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 woman	compound
42	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 brewery	nmod:poss
43	's	's	PART	_	42 woman	case
44	brewery	brewery	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 preparing	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 sparkling	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 sparkling	cc
47	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 preparing	conj
48	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 petre	compound
49	-	-	PUNCT	_	48 salt	punct
50	petre	petre	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 wine	compound
51	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 sparkling	obj
52	from	from	ADP	_	55 cellars	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 cellars	det
54	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 cellars	amod
55	cellars	cellar	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 sparkling	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 frogs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		kitchen frogs and dishes			tree rules
2	roast	gerund	kitchen frogs and dishes not said here			on the spit	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on spit=Instrument
3	prepare	gerund	dishes not said here		the marsh woman's brewery	of snail skins; with children's fingers in fingers and salad of mushroom seed and hemlock and noses and marrow of mice and beer	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with finger=Instrument
4	sparkle	gerund	dishes not said here	petre wine	the grave cellars		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wine=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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