Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 7
The rooms were larger, the walls were adorned with the horns of the chamois, and brightly polished guns.
Who acts: rooms · What happens: be, adorn, polish · To what, where: walls
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, III. the Uncle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rooms), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rooms | det |
| 2 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 larger | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 larger | cop |
| 4 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 adorned | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 walls | det |
| 7 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 adorned | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 adorned | aux:pass |
| 9 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 larger | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 horns | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horns | det |
| 12 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 adorned | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 chamois | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chamois | det |
| 15 | chamois | chamois | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 horns | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 guns | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 guns | cc |
| 18 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 19 polished | advmod |
| 19 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 guns | amod |
| 20 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 horns | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 larger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the rooms | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | adorn | past · passive | the walls | with the horns of the chamois and polished guns | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with horn=Theme | ||||
| 3 | polish | participle | brightly property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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