Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 24

The table was covered with a snowy white table-cloth, on which stood a splendid dinner service, and a steaming roast goose, stuffed with apples and dried plums.

What happens: cover, stand, steam, stuff, dry · To what, where: table, splendid dinner service, steaming roast goose

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Match-seller. 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 table	det
2	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 covered	aux:pass
4	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	11 cloth	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cloth	det
7	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cloth	amod
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cloth	amod
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cloth	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 table	punct
11	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stood	punct
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 stood	nsubj
15	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 covered	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 service	det
17	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 service	amod
18	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 service	compound
19	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stood	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stuffed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stuffed	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 goose	det
23	steaming	steam	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 goose	amod
24	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 goose	compound
25	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stuffed	nsubj:pass
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stuffed	punct
27	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 stood	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 apples	case
29	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 stuffed	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 plums	cc
31	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 plums	amod
32	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 apples	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive	the table	with a snowy white table cloth	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with cloth=Theme
2	stand	past	a splendid dinner service		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer service=Stimulus
3	steam	gerund			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	stuff	participle · passive	a steaming roast goose	with apples and dried plums	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with apple=Theme
5	dry	participle			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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