Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 24
It was in a large house with dark windows and empty rooms, in which a peculiar stillness reigned.
Who acts: hand, large house · What happens: be, stillness, reign · To what, where: large house, peculiar stillness
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand, large house), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 house | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 house | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 windows | case |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 windows | amod |
| 9 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 house | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rooms | cc |
| 11 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rooms | amod |
| 12 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 windows | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stillness | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 stillness | nsubj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 stillness | det |
| 17 | peculiar | peculiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stillness | compound |
| 18 | stillness | stillness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 house | conj |
| 19 | reigned | reign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 stillness | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | hand | a large house and a peculiar stillness | with dark windows and empty rooms | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stillness | a large house and a peculiar stillness | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | reign | participle | a peculiar stillness not said here | 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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