Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Moon Saw, sentence 19

The pictures I have here given have not been chosen at random, but follow in their proper order, just as they were described to me.

Who acts: I, pictures · What happens: give, not choose, follow, describe, order · To what, where: pictures, random, proper order, me

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Moon Saw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, pictures), 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 pictures	det
2	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 chosen	nsubj:pass
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 given	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 given	aux
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 given	advmod
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 pictures	acl:relcl
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 chosen	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 chosen	advmod
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 chosen	aux:pass
10	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 random	case
12	random	random	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chosen	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 follow	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 follow	cc
15	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 chosen	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 order	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 order	nmod:poss
18	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 order	amod
19	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 follow	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 described	punct
21	just	just	ADV	_	25 described	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 described	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 described	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 described	aux:pass
25	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 chosen	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 described	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 chosen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	give	present · perfect	I	the pictures not said here		here	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme
2	not choose	present · perfect · passive		the pictures		random	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at random=Asset
3	follow	present				pictures's proper order	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in order=Location
4	describe	past · passive		pictures = picture	me		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme to i=be'
5	order		pictures = picture				nom order «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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