Grimms' Fairy Tales, Briar Rose, sentence 26

A large hedge of thorns soon grew round the palace, and every year it became higher and thicker; till at last the old palace was surrounded and hidden, so that not even the roof or the chimneys could be seen.

Who acts: large hedge, hedge · What happens: grow, become, surround, hide, see · To what, where: old palace, last, roof

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Briar Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large hedge, hedge), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hedge	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hedge	amod
3	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grew	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 thorns	case
5	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hedge	nmod
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 grew	advmod
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	round	round	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grew	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 became	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 became	cc
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 year	det
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 became	obl:unmarked
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 became	nsubj
16	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grew	conj
17	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 became	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 thicker	cc
19	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 higher	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 surrounded	punct
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 surrounded	mark
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 last	case
23	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 surrounded	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 palace	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 palace	amod
26	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 surrounded	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 surrounded	aux:pass
28	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 became	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hidden	cc
30	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 surrounded	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 seen	punct
32	so	so	SCONJ	_	43 seen	mark
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 seen	mark
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 roof	advmod
35	even	even	ADV	_	37 roof	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 roof	det
37	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 seen	nsubj:pass
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 chimneys	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 chimneys	det
40	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 roof	conj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 seen	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 seen	aux:pass
43	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 surrounded	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	a large hedge of thorns				round the palace; soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	become	past	hedge			year	high property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	surround	past · passive		the old palace	last			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
4	hide	participle						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	could · passive		the roof or the chimneys				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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