Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 22
The walls were resplendent with paintings; here stood statues and busts, all in a clear light as if it were day.
Who acts: walls, statue · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: statues
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls, statue), 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 | 4 resplendent | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 resplendent | cop |
| 4 | resplendent | resplendent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 paintings | case |
| 6 | paintings | painting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 resplendent | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 stood | advmod |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 resplendent | conj |
| 10 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stood | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 busts | cc |
| 12 | busts | bust | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 statues | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 light | punct |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 light | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 light | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 light | det |
| 17 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 light | amod |
| 18 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 statues | conj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 day | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 day | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 day | cop |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 resplendent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the walls | with paintings; resplendent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the walls not said here | statues and busts and a clear light | here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer statue=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | statue | as day | 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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