Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 81
The slaves polished the old shields that served as ornaments; cushions were placed on the seats, and dry wood laid on the fireplaces in the centre of the hall, so that the flames might be fanned up at a moment's notice.
Who acts: slaves, old shields, moment · What happens: polish, serve, place, lay, fan up, notice · To what, where: old shields, cushions, seats, dry wood, centre, flames
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slaves, old shields, moment), 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 slaves | det |
| 2 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 polished | nsubj |
| 3 | polished | polish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shields | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shields | amod |
| 6 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 polished | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 served | nsubj |
| 8 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shields | acl:relcl |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 ornaments | case |
| 10 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 served | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 placed | punct |
| 12 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 placed | aux:pass |
| 14 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 polished | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 seats | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 seats | det |
| 17 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 placed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wood | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wood | cc |
| 20 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wood | amod |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 placed | obl |
| 22 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 wood | acl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 fireplaces | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fireplaces | det |
| 25 | fireplaces | fireplace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 laid | obl:agent |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 centre | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 centre | det |
| 28 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 laid | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 hall | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 hall | det |
| 31 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 centre | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 fanned | punct |
| 33 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 39 fanned | mark |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 fanned | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 flames | det |
| 36 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 fanned | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 fanned | aux |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 fanned | aux:pass |
| 39 | fanned | fan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 placed | conj |
| 40 | up | up | ADP | _ | 39 fanned | compound:prt |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 45 notice | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 moment | det |
| 43 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 notice | nmod:poss |
| 44 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 43 moment | case |
| 45 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 fanned | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 polished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | polish | past | the slaves | the old shields | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent shield=Destination | ||||
| 2 | serve | past | the old shields | as ornaments | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as ornament=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | place | past · passive | cushions | the seats | dry wood obl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on seat=Destination | |||
| 4 | lay | participle | dry wood not said here | the centre of the hall | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in centre=Destination | ||||
| 5 | fan up | might · passive | the flames | a moment's notice | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | notice | a moment | nom notice «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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