Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 135

First, they shone like silver, then like gold; and when they laid them on the heads of the old people, each flower became a golden crown.

Who acts: flowers, flower · What happens: shine, lay, become · To what, where: hair, heads, golden crown

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers, flower), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 shone	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 First	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shone	nsubj
4	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 silver	case
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shone	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gold	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 gold	advmod
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 gold	case
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shone	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 laid	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 laid	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 laid	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laid	nsubj
15	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shone	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laid	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 heads	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 heads	det
19	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 laid	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 people	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 people	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 people	amod
23	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 heads	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 became	punct
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	26 flower	det
26	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 became	nsubj
27	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shone	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 crown	det
29	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 crown	amod
30	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 became	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past	flowers = flower			like silver; first property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay	past	flowers = flower	hair	the heads of the old people		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on head=Destination
3	become	past	each flower	a golden crown			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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