Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 39

Through the clear crystal of the lofty windows could be seen noble rooms, with costly silk curtains and hangings of tapestry; while the walls were covered with beautiful paintings which were a pleasure to look at.

Who acts: beautiful paintings · What happens: see, cover, be, look · To what, where: noble rooms, clear crystal, walls, pleasure

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 (beautiful paintings), 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	Through	through	ADP	_	4 crystal	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crystal	det
3	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crystal	amod
4	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seen	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 windows	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 windows	det
7	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 windows	amod
8	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crystal	nmod
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 seen	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 seen	aux:pass
11	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rooms	amod
13	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 seen	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 curtains	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 curtains	case
16	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 curtains	amod
17	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 curtains	compound
18	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rooms	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hangings	cc
20	hangings	hanging	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 rooms	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 tapestry	case
22	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hangings	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 covered	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	28 covered	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 walls	det
26	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 covered	nsubj:pass
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 covered	aux:pass
28	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 seen	conj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 paintings	case
30	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 paintings	amod
31	paintings	painting	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 covered	obl
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 pleasure	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 pleasure	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 pleasure	det
35	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 paintings	nmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 look	mark
37	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 pleasure	acl
38	at	at	ADP	_	37 look	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	could · passive		noble rooms and costly silk curtains and hangings of tapestry	the clear crystal of the lofty windows		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: room=Stimulus
2	cover	past · passive		the walls		with beautiful paintings	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with painting=Theme
3	is a	past	beautiful paintings	a pleasure			tree rules
4	look	to-infinitive					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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