Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 67
Had they been placed in groups, and painted, it might have been said, "What beautiful foliage!"
What happens: place, paint, say · To what, where: things, groups, imagination · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. 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 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 placed | aux |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 placed | aux:pass |
| 4 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 groups | case |
| 6 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 placed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 9 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 said | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 painted | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 12 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | aux |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 said | aux:pass |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 placed | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 foliage | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 foliage | punct |
| 18 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 foliage | advmod |
| 19 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 foliage | amod |
| 20 | foliage | foliage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 placed | parataxis |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 foliage | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 foliage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · perfect · passive | things = thing | groups | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | might · perfect · passive | imagination | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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