Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 123
The houses and bridges were adorned with verses and inscriptions.
What happens: adorn · To what, where: houses
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 | 6 adorned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bridges | cc |
| 4 | bridges | bridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 houses | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 adorned | aux:pass |
| 6 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 verses | case |
| 8 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 adorned | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 inscriptions | cc |
| 10 | inscriptions | inscription | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 verses | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 adorned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adorn | past · passive | the houses and bridges | with verses and inscriptions | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with verse=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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