Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 43
On the walls were inscriptions, half of them against "la bella Italia."
What happens: be · To what, where: inscriptions, walls
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 walls | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 walls | det |
| 3 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 inscriptions | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 inscriptions | cop |
| 5 | inscriptions | inscription | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 half | punct |
| 7 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 inscriptions | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 half | nmod |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 Italia | case |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Italia | punct |
| 12 | la | la | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Italia | det |
| 13 | bella | Bella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Italia | amod |
| 14 | Italia | Italia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 half | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 inscriptions | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 inscriptions | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | inscriptions | the walls | tree rules |
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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