Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 115
The houses were called hotels; the woodwork on the windows and balconies was curiously carved.
What happens: call, carve · To what, where: houses, woodwork · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 houses | det |
| 2 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | hotels | hotel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 carved | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woodwork | det |
| 8 | woodwork | woodwork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carved | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 windows | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 windows | det |
| 11 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 woodwork | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 balconies | cc |
| 13 | balconies | balcony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 windows | conj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 carved | aux:pass |
| 15 | curiously | curiously | ADV | _ | 16 carved | advmod |
| 16 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 called | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | the houses | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | carve | past · passive | the woodwork on the windows and balconies | curiously property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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