Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 104

The ceiling of the room resembled a large palm-tree with leaves of glass, of costly glass; and in the middle, from a thick golden stem, hung two beds, each of which resembled a lily.

Who acts: ceiling, each · What happens: resemble, hang · To what, where: large palm tree, two beds, middle, lily

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ceiling, each), 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 ceiling	det
2	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 resembled	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 room	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 room	det
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ceiling	nmod
6	resembled	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tree	det
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tree	amod
9	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tree	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 palm	punct
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 resembled	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 leaves	case
13	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tree	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 glass	case
15	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaves	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 glass	punct
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 glass	case
18	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 glass	amod
19	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 resembled	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 hung	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hung	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 middle	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 middle	det
24	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hung	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stem	punct
26	from	from	ADP	_	30 stem	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 stem	det
28	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 stem	amod
29	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 stem	amod
30	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 middle	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 middle	punct
32	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 resembled	parataxis
33	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 beds	nummod
34	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 hung	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 resembled	punct
36	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	39 resembled	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 which	case
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 each	nmod
39	resembled	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 hung	conj
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 lily	det
41	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 resembled	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 resembled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	resemble	past	the ceiling of the room	a large palm tree		with leaves of glass; of costly glass	tree rules
2	hang	past		two beds	the middle and a thick golden stem		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bed=Theme in middle=Destination
3	resemble	past	each	a lily			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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