Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 29

Woodroof and anemonies grew almost too high; blooming convolvuluses and blackberry-bushes hung in long garlands from tree to tree, where the nightingale sang and the sunbeams were playing: it was very beautiful, but it was no place for girls to go; their clothes would get so torn.

Who acts: Woodroof anemonies, nightingale, sunbeams, clothes · What happens: grow, bloom, hang, sing, play, be · To what, where: convolvuluses, long garlands, place

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Woodroof anemonies, nightingale, sunbeams, clothes), 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	Woodroof	woodroof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 anemonies	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 anemonies	cc
3	anemonies	anemony	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 too	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 high	advmod
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	xcomp
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 blooming	punct
9	blooming	bloom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 grew	advcl
10	convolvuluses	convolvulus	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 blooming	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bushes	cc
12	blackberry	blackberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bushes	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 blackberry	punct
14	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 convolvuluses	conj
15	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 convolvuluses	acl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 garlands	case
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 garlands	amod
18	garlands	garland	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hung	obl
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 tree	case
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 garlands	nmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 tree	case
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hung	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sang	punct
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 sang	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 nightingale	det
26	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sang	nsubj
27	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 tree	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 playing	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sunbeams	det
30	sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 playing	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 playing	aux
32	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 sang	conj
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 beautiful	punct
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 beautiful	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 beautiful	cop
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 beautiful	advmod
37	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grew	parataxis
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 place	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 place	cc
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 place	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 place	cop
42	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	43 place	det
43	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 beautiful	obl
44	for	for	ADP	_	45 girls	case
45	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 place	nmod
46	to	to	PART	_	47 go	mark
47	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 place	acl
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 get	punct
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 clothes	nmod:poss
50	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	52 get	nsubj
51	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 get	aux
52	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 beautiful	conj
53	so	so	ADV	_	54 torn	advmod
54	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 get	xcomp
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	Woodroof anemonies			high property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bloom	gerund	Woodroof anemonies not said here	convolvuluses and blackberry bushes			vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location convolvulus=Theme
3	hang	participle		convolvuluses and blackberry bushes not said here	long garlands from tree	to tree	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garland=Location
4	sing speech: express	past	the nightingale				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	play	past · progressive	the sunbeams				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	nightingale			beautiful property	tree rules
7	is a	past	nightingale	no place		for girls	tree rules
8	go	to-infinitive	nightingale not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	get	would	sunbeams's clothes				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	tear	participle	sunbeams's clothes not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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