Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 2
She saw the new altar with the painted pictures and the carved angels.
Who acts: wife · What happens: see, paint, carve · To what, where: new altar
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 altar | det |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 altar | amod |
| 5 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 pictures | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pictures | det |
| 8 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 pictures | amod |
| 9 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 angels | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 angels | det |
| 12 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 angels | amod |
| 13 | angels | angel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pictures | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | wife | the new altar | with the painted pictures and the carved angels | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer altar=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | carve | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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