Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 75

On one branch there hung little nets cut out of colored paper, and each net was filled with sugarplums; and among the other boughs gilded apples and walnuts were suspended, looking as though they had grown there, and little blue and white tapers were placed among the leaves.

Who acts: little nets, apples · What happens: hang, cut out, color, fill, gild, suspend · To what, where: little nets, one branch, colored paper, net, gilded apples, other boughs

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 (little nets, apples), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 branch	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 branch	nummod
3	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hung	obl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 hung	advmod
5	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nets	amod
7	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hung	obj
8	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 nets	acl
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 paper	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 paper	case
11	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 paper	amod
12	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cut	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 filled	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 filled	cc
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 net	det
16	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 filled	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 filled	aux:pass
18	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hung	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 sugarplums	case
20	sugarplums	sugarplum	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 filled	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 suspended	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 suspended	cc
23	among	among	ADP	_	26 boughs	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 boughs	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 boughs	amod
26	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 suspended	obl
27	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 apples	amod
28	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 suspended	nsubj:pass
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 walnuts	cc
30	walnuts	walnut	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 apples	conj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 suspended	aux:pass
32	suspended	suspend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hung	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 looking	punct
34	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 suspended	advcl
35	as	as	ADV	_	34 looking	advmod
36	though	though	SCONJ	_	39 grown	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 grown	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 grown	aux
39	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 looking	advcl
40	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 grown	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 blue	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 blue	cc
43	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 blue	amod
44	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hung	conj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 placed	cc
46	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 tapers	amod
47	tapers	taper	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 placed	nsubj:pass
48	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 placed	aux:pass
49	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 blue	conj
50	among	among	ADP	_	52 leaves	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 leaves	det
52	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 placed	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	past		little nets	one branch; there		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent net=Theme on branch=Destination
2	cut out	participle	little nets not said here	colored paper			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector paper=Eventuality
3	color	participle					vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	fill	past · passive		each net		with sugarplums	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with sugarplum=Instrument
5	gild	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
6	suspend	past · passive		gilded apples and walnuts	the other boughs		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme among bough=Destination
7	look	gerund					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
8	grow	past · perfect	apples = apple		there		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	place	past · passive		white tapers	the leaves		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme among leaf=Destination

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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