Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 38
Splendid gilded cupolas rose over the roof, and between the pillars that surrounded the whole building stood life-like statues of marble.
Who acts: Splendid gilded cupolas, pillars · What happens: gild, rise, surround, stand · To what, where: roof, pillars, like statues
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Splendid gilded cupolas, pillars), 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 | Splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cupolas | amod |
| 2 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 cupolas | amod |
| 3 | cupolas | cupola | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 roof | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 roof | det |
| 7 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stood | cc |
| 10 | between | between | ADP | _ | 12 pillars | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pillars | det |
| 12 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stood | nsubj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 pillars | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 building | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 building | amod |
| 17 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 surrounded | obj |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 like | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 life | punct |
| 21 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 statues | amod |
| 22 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stood | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 marble | case |
| 24 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 statues | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gild | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | rise | past | Splendid gilded cupolas | the roof | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over roof=Location | ||||
| 3 | surround | participle · passive | the pillars | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stand | past | the pillars | like statues of marble | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer statue=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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