Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, sentence 17

Perhaps of the beautiful Christ-child, dressed in gold and silver, which was down below in the chapel, where the silver candlesticks gleamed so bright, and where her little friends sung the hymns in which she also could join?

Who acts: gold, silver candlesticks, little friends, beam · What happens: dress, be, gleam, sing, join · To what, where: beautiful Christ child, gold, chapel, hymns

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gold, silver candlesticks, little friends, beam), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	7 child	advmod
2	of	of	ADP	_	7 child	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 child	amod
5	Christ	Christ	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 child	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Christ	punct
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dressed	punct
9	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 child	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 gold	case
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dressed	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 silver	cc
13	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gold	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 chapel	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 chapel	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 chapel	cop
17	down	down	ADV	_	18 below	advmod
18	below	below	ADV	_	21 chapel	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 chapel	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 chapel	det
21	chapel	chapel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gold	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gleamed	punct
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 gleamed	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 candlesticks	det
25	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 candlesticks	amod
26	candlesticks	candlestick	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 gleamed	nsubj
27	gleamed	gleam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 chapel	conj
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 bright	advmod
29	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 gleamed	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 where	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 where	cc
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 dressed	conj
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 friends	nmod:poss
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 friends	amod
35	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 where	nsubj
36	sung	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 friends	acl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 hymns	det
38	hymns	hymn	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 sung	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 which	case
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 join	obl
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 join	nsubj
42	also	also	ADV	_	44 join	advmod
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 join	aux
44	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 hymns	acl:relcl
45	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 child	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dress	participle		the beautiful Christ child not said here	gold and silver and the chapel		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	gold and silver and the chapel		the chapel	below property	tree rules
3	gleam	participle	the silver candlesticks			bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sing speech: express	gerund	beam's little friends not said here	the hymns			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme
5	join	could	beam			in the hymns	vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in which=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: «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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