Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 4
The carpet was thick and soft, like a covering of moss.
Who acts: carpet · What happens: be
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 (carpet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:4944): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 carpet | det |
| 2 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thick | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thick | cop |
| 4 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 soft | cc |
| 6 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thick | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 covering | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 covering | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 covering | det |
| 10 | covering | covering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thick | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 moss | case |
| 12 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 covering | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the carpet | like a covering of moss; thick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the carpet 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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