Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 30

The tendrils of the peas hung down over the boxes; and the rose-trees shot up long branches, twined round the windows, and then bent towards each other: it was almost like a triumphant arch of foliage and flowers.

Who acts: tendrils, rose trees, window · What happens: hang down, shoot up, twine, bend, be · To what, where: boxes, long branches, windows, each

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tendrils, rose trees, window), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tendrils	det
2	tendrils	tendril	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hung	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 peas	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 peas	det
5	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tendrils	nmod
6	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 hung	advmod
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 boxes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boxes	det
10	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hung	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 shot	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 shot	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trees	det
14	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 trees	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 rose	punct
16	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 shot	nsubj
17	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hung	parataxis
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 shot	compound:prt
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 branches	amod
20	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 shot	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 twined	punct
22	twined	twine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 branches	acl
23	round	round	ADP	_	25 windows	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 windows	det
25	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 twined	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 bent	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bent	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 bent	advmod
29	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 shot	conj
30	towards	towards	ADP	_	31 each	case
31	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	29 bent	obl
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 each	fixed
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	40 arch	punct
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 arch	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 arch	cop
36	almost	almost	ADV	_	40 arch	advmod
37	like	like	ADP	_	40 arch	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 arch	det
39	triumphant	triumphant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 arch	amod
40	arch	arch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hung	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 foliage	case
42	foliage	foliage	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 arch	nmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 flowers	cc
44	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 foliage	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang down	past	the tendrils of the peas		the boxes		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over box=Location
2	shoot up	past	the rose trees	long branches				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Patient
3	twine	participle		long branches not said here	the windows			vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round window=Destination
4	bend	past	the rose trees not said here		each	then		vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards each=Location
5	is	past	window				like a triumphant arch; of foliage and flowers; almost property	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: «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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