Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 83

Thick evergreens grow on the dilapidated walls, and around the altar, where a lovely maiden is standing: she bends over the railing and looks out upon the rose.

Who acts: Thick evergreens, lovely maiden, maiden · What happens: grow, dilapidate, stand, bend, look out · To what, where: dilapidated walls, railing

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thick evergreens, lovely maiden, maiden), 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	Thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 evergreens	amod
2	evergreens	evergreen	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 walls	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 walls	det
6	dilapidated	dilapidate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 walls	amod
7	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 altar	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 altar	cc
10	around	around	ADP	_	12 altar	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 altar	det
12	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 standing	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 standing	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 maiden	det
16	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 maiden	amod
17	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 standing	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 standing	aux
19	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 altar	conj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 bends	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bends	nsubj
22	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	parataxis
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 railing	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 railing	det
25	railing	railing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bends	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 looks	cc
27	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 bends	conj
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 looks	compound:prt
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 rose	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rose	det
31	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 looks	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Thick evergreens	the dilapidated walls		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wall=Location
2	dilapidate	participle				tree rules
3	stand	present · progressive	a lovely maiden			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bend	present	maiden	the railing		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over railing=Location
5	look out	present	maiden not said here		upon the rose	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: 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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