Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, III. the Uncle, sentence 8
Over the door hung a painting of the Virgin Mary, fresh alpine roses and a burning lamp stood near it.
Who acts: door, fresh alpine roses · What happens: hang, burn, stand · To what, where: painting, door
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 (door, fresh alpine roses), 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 | Over | over | SCONJ | _ | 4 hung | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hung | nsubj |
| 4 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stood | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 painting | det |
| 6 | painting | painting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hung | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Mary | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Mary | det |
| 9 | Virgin | Virgin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Mary | compound |
| 10 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 painting | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hung | punct |
| 12 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 roses | amod |
| 13 | alpine | alpine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 roses | compound |
| 14 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 stood | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lamp | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lamp | det |
| 17 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 lamp | amod |
| 18 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 roses | conj |
| 19 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stood | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | the door | a painting of the Virgin Mary | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent painting=Patient | ||||
| 2 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | stand | past | fresh alpine roses and a burning lamp | door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near it=Location |
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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