Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 7

We went to the temple of Venus, built of snow-white marble, with its high altar in front of the broad steps, and the weeping willows sprouting freshly forth among the pillars.

Who acts: We, weeping · What happens: go, build, willow, sprout · To what, where: temple, Venus, pillars

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, weeping), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 temple	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 temple	det
5	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Venus	case
7	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 temple	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 built	punct
9	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Venus	acl
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 marble	case
11	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 marble	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 snow	punct
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 marble	amod
14	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 built	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 altar	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 altar	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 altar	nmod:poss
18	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 altar	amod
19	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 marble	appos
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 front	case
21	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 altar	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 steps	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 steps	det
24	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 steps	amod
25	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 front	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 willows	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 willows	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 weeping	det
29	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 willows	nsubj
30	willows	willow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
31	sprouting	sprout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 willows	xcomp
32	freshly	freshly	ADV	_	33 forth	advmod
33	forth	forth	ADV	_	31 sprouting	advmod
34	among	among	ADP	_	36 pillars	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 pillars	det
36	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sprouting	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	We		the temple of Venus		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to temple=Initial_Location
2	build	participle		Venus not said here		of snow white marble	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	willow	present	the weeping				tree rules
4	sprout	gerund	the weeping not said here		the pillars	forth property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among pillar=Location

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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