Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 10
Upon this there was a great uproar; even the engravings, which hung in frames on the wall, turned round in their excitement, and showed that they had a wrong side to them, although they had not the least intention to expose themselves in this way, or to object to the game.
Who acts: this, engravings, frames · What happens: be, hang, turn round, show, have, expose · To what, where: frames, wall, excitement, wrong side, least intention, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, engravings, frames), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 uproar | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 uproar | nsubj |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 uproar | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 uproar | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 uproar | amod |
| 7 | uproar | uproar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 engravings | punct |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 engravings | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 engravings | det |
| 11 | engravings | engraving | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 uproar | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hung | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 hung | nsubj |
| 14 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 engravings | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 frames | case |
| 16 | frames | frame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hung | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 wall | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wall | det |
| 19 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hung | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 turned | punct |
| 21 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 wall | acl |
| 22 | round | round | ADV | _ | 21 turned | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 excitement | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 excitement | nmod:poss |
| 25 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 turned | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 showed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 showed | cc |
| 28 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hung | conj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 had | mark |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 had | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 showed | ccomp |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 side | det |
| 33 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 side | amod |
| 34 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 had | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 them | case |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 side | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 had | punct |
| 38 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 40 had | mark |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 had | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 showed | conj |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 intention | advmod |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 intention | det |
| 43 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 44 intention | amod |
| 44 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 had | obj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 expose | mark |
| 46 | expose | expose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 intention | acl |
| 47 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 46 expose | obj |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 way | case |
| 49 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 50 way | det |
| 50 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 expose | obl |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 object | punct |
| 52 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 54 object | cc |
| 53 | to | to | PART | _ | 54 object | mark |
| 54 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 had | obl |
| 55 | to | to | ADP | _ | 57 game | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 game | det |
| 57 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 object | nmod |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 engravings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this | upon a great uproar | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hang | past | the engravings | frames | on the wall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in frame=Location | |||
| 3 | turn round | participle | the wall not said here | frames's excitement | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in excitement=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | show | past | the engravings not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | have | past | frames = frame | a wrong side | to engravings = engraving | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient | |||
| 6 | have | past | frames = frame | the least intention | object to the game obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Patient | |||
| 7 | expose | to-infinitive | frames = frame not said here | frames = frame | this way | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Topic | |||
| 8 | excite | frames = frame | nom excitement «feeling 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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