Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 76

Dolls that looked for all the world like men--the Tree had never beheld such before--were seen among the foliage, and at the very top a large star of gold tinsel was fixed.

Who acts: Dolls, Tree · What happens: look, not behold, see, fix · To what, where: large star

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 (Dolls, Tree), 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	Dolls	doll	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 looked	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 world	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 world	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 men	case
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 looked	obl
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 beheld	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Tree	det
12	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 beheld	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 beheld	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 beheld	advmod
15	beheld	behold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 looked	conj
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	15 beheld	xcomp
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 such	fixed
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 seen	punct
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seen	aux:pass
20	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 looked	parataxis
21	among	among	ADP	_	23 foliage	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 foliage	det
23	foliage	foliage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seen	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 top	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 top	cc
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 top	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 top	det
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 top	advmod
29	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 seen	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 star	det
31	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 star	amod
32	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 top	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 tinsel	case
34	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tinsel	compound
35	tinsel	tinsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fixed	obl
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 fixed	aux:pass
37	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 star	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	Dolls		for all world; like men	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for world=Theme
2	not behold	past · perfect	the Tree		such property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	see	past · passive			among the foliage	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
4	fix	past · passive		a large star not said here	of gold tinsel	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»

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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