Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 69

The walls and the ceiling of the large ball-room were of thick, but transparent crystal.

Who acts: walls · What happens: be

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 (walls), 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 walls	det
2	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 thick	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ceiling	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ceiling	det
5	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walls	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	11 room	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 room	det
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 room	amod
9	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 room	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 ball	punct
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ceiling	nmod
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thick	cop
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 thick	case
14	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 crystal	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 crystal	cc
17	transparent	transparent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 crystal	amod
18	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thick	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 thick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the walls and the ceiling of the large ball room					transparent crystal obl; thick property	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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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