Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 3

The lamp in the bed-chamber had been partly shaded, and the windows were covered with heavy curtains of some costly silken material.

What happens: shade, cover · To what, where: lamp, windows

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: 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 lamp	det
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shaded	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	7 chamber	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chamber	det
5	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chamber	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 bed	punct
7	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lamp	nmod
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 shaded	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 shaded	aux:pass
10	partly	partly	ADV	_	11 shaded	advmod
11	shaded	shade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 covered	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 covered	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 windows	det
15	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 covered	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 covered	aux:pass
17	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 shaded	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 curtains	case
19	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 curtains	amod
20	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 covered	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	25 material	case
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 material	nsubj
23	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 material	amod
24	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 material	amod
25	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 curtains	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 shaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shade	past · perfect · passive		the lamp in the bed chamber				partly property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
2	cover	past · passive		the windows				with heavy curtains of costly silken material	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with curtain=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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