Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Match-seller, sentence 28
It was larger and more beautifully decorated than the one which she had seen through the glass door at the rich merchant's.
Who acts: tree · What happens: be, decorate, see · To what, where: one, glass door
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: who acts (tree), 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 | 3 larger | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 larger | cop |
| 3 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 decorated | cc |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 decorated | advmod |
| 6 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 7 decorated | advmod |
| 7 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 larger | conj |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 decorated | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seen | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 one | acl:relcl |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 17 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 door | compound |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seen | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 merchant | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 merchant | det |
| 21 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 merchant | amod |
| 22 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seen | obl |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 merchant | case |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 larger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | tree | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | decorate | participle | tree not said here | than the one; beautifully property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect · passive | the one | the glass door | at the rich merchant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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