Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 32

Glorious woods are there, and high trees, an old knightly castle with red walls, swans floating in the ponds, and in the background appears, among orchards, a little town with a church.

Who acts: Glorious woods, swans · What happens: be, float, appear · To what, where: ponds, orchards, background

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Glorious woods, swans), 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	Glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 woods	amod
2	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 there	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 trees	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 trees	cc
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 trees	amod
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 there	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 castle	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 castle	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 castle	amod
12	knightly	knightly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 castle	amod
13	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 there	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 walls	case
15	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 walls	amod
16	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 castle	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 swans	punct
18	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 walls	conj
19	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 swans	acl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 ponds	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ponds	det
22	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 floating	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 appears	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 appears	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 background	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 background	det
27	background	background	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 appears	obl
28	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 orchards	punct
30	among	among	ADP	_	31 orchards	case
31	orchards	orchard	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 appears	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 town	punct
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 town	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 town	amod
35	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 orchards	nmod
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 church	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 church	det
38	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 town	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 there	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Glorious woods			high trees obl; there property	tree rules
2	float	gerund	swans not said here		the ponds		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Trajectory
3	appear	present		orchards a little town with a church	the background		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location orchard=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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