Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 27
In the bedrooms, curtains were hung up and fastened with the slime of snails; there was, indeed, a buzzing and humming everywhere.
What happens: hang up, fasten, be, hum · To what, where: curtains, bedrooms
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: 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 bedrooms | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bedrooms | det |
| 3 | bedrooms | bedroom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hung | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bedrooms | punct |
| 5 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hung | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hung | aux:pass |
| 7 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 hung | compound:prt |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fastened | cc |
| 10 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hung | conj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 slime | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 slime | det |
| 13 | slime | slime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fastened | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 snails | case |
| 15 | snails | snail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 slime | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 was | punct |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hung | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hung | punct |
| 20 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 hung | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 buzzing | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 buzzing | det |
| 23 | buzzing | buzzing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hung | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 humming | cc |
| 25 | humming | hum | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 hung | conj |
| 26 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 25 humming | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang up | past · passive | curtains | the bedrooms | a buzzing obl; indeed property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in bedroom=Destination | |||
| 2 | fasten | participle | with the slime of snails | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with slime=Co-Patient | |||||
| 3 | be | past | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hum | gerund | everywhere property | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location |
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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