Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 39

Under the picture, in a glazed frame, there hung a bouquet of withered flowers; they were almost fifty years old; they looked so very old!

Who acts: flowers · What happens: glaze, hang, wither, be, look · To what, where: bouquet, picture

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers), 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	Under	under	ADP	_	3 picture	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 picture	det
3	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hung	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 frame	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 frame	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 frame	det
7	glazed	glaze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 frame	amod
8	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 picture	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 picture	punct
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 hung	expl
11	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bouquet	det
13	bouquet	bouquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hung	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 flowers	case
15	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 flowers	amod
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bouquet	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 old	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 old	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 old	cop
20	almost	almost	ADV	_	21 fifty	advmod
21	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 years	nummod
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 old	obl:unmarked
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hung	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 looked	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 looked	nsubj
26	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hung	conj
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 old	advmod
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 old	advmod
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 looked	xcomp
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glaze	participle						vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
2	hang	past		a bouquet of withered flowers	the picture and a glazed frame; there			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bouquet=Theme under picture=Destination
3	wither	participle						vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	flowers = flower			year	old property	tree rules
5	look	past	flowers = flower				old property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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