Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 43

We peeped through the windows, and saw them planted in the middle of the warm room and ornamented with the most splendid things, with gilded apples, with gingerbread, with toys, and many hundred lights!”

Who acts: We, windows · What happens: peep, see, plant, ornament, gild · To what, where: windows, middle

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, windows), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 peeped	nsubj
2	peeped	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 windows	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 windows	det
5	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 peeped	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 saw	cc
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 peeped	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	obj
10	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 saw	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 middle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 middle	det
13	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 planted	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 room	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 room	det
16	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 room	amod
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 middle	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ornamented	cc
19	ornamented	ornament	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 planted	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	24 things	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 things	det
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 splendid	advmod
23	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 things	amod
24	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 ornamented	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 apples	punct
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 apples	case
27	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 apples	amod
28	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 things	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gingerbread	punct
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 gingerbread	case
31	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 apples	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 toys	punct
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 toys	case
34	toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 apples	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 lights	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 lights	cc
37	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 hundred	amod
38	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 lights	nummod
39	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 peeped	parataxis
40	!	!	PUNCT	_	39 lights	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 peeped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	peep	past	We			through the windows	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme
2	see	past	We not said here	windows = window			tree rules
3	plant	participle	windows = window not said here		the middle of the warm room		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in middle=Destination
4	ornament	participle	windows = window not said here			with the splendid things with gilded apples and gingerbread and toys	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with thing=Theme
5	gild	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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