Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 58

There were rocking chairs, silken sofas, large tables, covered with pictures, books, and playthings, worth a great deal of money,--at least, the children said so.

Who acts: rocking chairs, children · What happens: be, rock, cover, say, deal · To what, where: large tables, least, money · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rocking chairs, children), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rocking	rock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 chairs	amod
4	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sofas	punct
6	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sofas	amod
7	sofas	sofa	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chairs	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tables	punct
9	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tables	amod
10	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chairs	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 covered	punct
12	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 tables	acl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 pictures	case
14	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 covered	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 books	punct
16	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pictures	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 playthings	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 playthings	cc
19	playthings	plaything	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 worth	punct
21	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 playthings	amod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 deal	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 deal	amod
24	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 worth	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 money	case
26	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 deal	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 least	case
30	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 said	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 children	det
33	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 said	nsubj
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 playthings	conj
35	so	so	ADV	_	34 said	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	rocking chairs and silken sofas and large tables		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rock	gerund					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cover	participle		large tables not said here		with pictures and books	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with picture=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the children		least		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	deal			money			nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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