Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifth Evening, sentence 5
"'Here it was!' she said, 'here!' and she approached the throne, from which hung the rich velvet fringed with gold lace. '
Who acts: many · What happens: be, say, approach, hang, fringe · To what, where: throne, rich velvet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Here | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Here | punct |
| 3 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 said | parataxis |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 was | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Here | cop |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Here | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Here | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 here | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 here | punct |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 here | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 here | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 approached | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 approached | nsubj |
| 17 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 throne | det |
| 19 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 approached | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hung | punct |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 hung | nsubj |
| 23 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 approached | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 velvet | det |
| 25 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 velvet | amod |
| 26 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hung | obj |
| 27 | fringed | fringe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 velvet | acl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 lace | case |
| 29 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lace | compound |
| 30 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fringed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 32 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | many | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | approach in a quote | past | many | the throne | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throne=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hang in a quote | past | the rich velvet | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent velvet=Patient | |||||
| 5 | fringe in a quote | participle | the rich velvet not said here | with gold lace | 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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