Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-eighth Evening, sentence 5

The worms have gnawed the gilded wood, the spider has spun her web from the crown down to the sand, like a mourning banner, frail and transient as the grief of mortals.

What happens: gnaw, gild, spin · To what, where: worms, spider, crown

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-eighth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 worms	det
2	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gnawed	nsubj:pass
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gnawed	aux
4	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
6	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wood	amod
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gnawed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 spun	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 spider	det
10	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spun	nsubj:pass
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 spun	aux
12	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gnawed	parataxis
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 web	nmod:poss
14	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spun	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 crown	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 crown	det
17	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spun	obl
18	down	down	ADV	_	12 spun	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 sand	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sand	det
21	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 down	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 banner	punct
23	like	like	ADP	_	26 banner	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 banner	det
25	mourning	mourning	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 banner	compound
26	banner	banner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spun	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 frail	punct
28	frail	frail	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 banner	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 transient	cc
30	transient	transient	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 banner	conj
31	as	as	ADP	_	33 grief	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 grief	det
33	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 banner	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 mortals	case
35	mortals	mortal	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 grief	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gnawed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	gnaw	present · perfect · passive	the worms			tree rules
2	gild	participle				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	spin	present · perfect · passive	the spider	the crown	like a mourning banner as the grief of mortals and frail and transient; down property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary web=Product from crown=Material

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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