Grimm's Fairy Stories, Briar Rose, sentence 21

A high hedge of thorns soon grew around the palace, and every year it became higher and thicker, till at last the whole palace was surrounded and hidden, so that not even the roof or the chimneys could be seen.

Who acts: high hedge, hedge · What happens: grow, become, surround, hide, see · To what, where: palace, whole palace, last, roof

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (high hedge, hedge), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hedge	det
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hedge	amod
3	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grew	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 thorns	case
5	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hedge	nmod
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 grew	advmod
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	around	around	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grew	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 became	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 became	cc
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 year	det
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 became	obl:unmarked
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 became	nsubj
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grew	conj
17	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 became	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 thicker	cc
19	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 higher	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 surrounded	punct
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 surrounded	mark
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 last	case
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 surrounded	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 palace	det
25	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 palace	amod
26	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 surrounded	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 surrounded	aux:pass
28	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 became	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hidden	cc
30	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 surrounded	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 seen	punct
32	so	so	SCONJ	_	43 seen	mark
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 seen	mark
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 roof	advmod
35	even	even	ADV	_	37 roof	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 roof	det
37	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 seen	nsubj:pass
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 chimneys	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 chimneys	det
40	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 roof	conj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 seen	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 seen	aux:pass
43	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 surrounded	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	a high hedge of thorns		the palace		soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around palace=Location
2	become	past	hedge			year	high property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	surround	past · passive		the whole palace	last			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
4	hide	participle						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	could · passive		the roof or the chimneys				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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