Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 184
Palms and branches were painted on the walls, and in the middle of the court stood a great blooming rose-tree spreading out its fresh boughs, covered with roses, over a grave.
Who acts: great blooming rose tree · What happens: paint, stand, bloom, spread out, cover · To what, where: Palms, walls, great blooming rose tree, middle, fresh boughs
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great blooming rose tree), 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 | Palms | palm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 branches | cc |
| 3 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Palms | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 painted | aux:pass |
| 5 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 walls | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 walls | det |
| 8 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 painted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stood | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 middle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 middle | det |
| 13 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 court | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 court | det |
| 16 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 middle | nmod |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 painted | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tree | amod |
| 20 | blooming | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 tree | amod |
| 21 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tree | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 rose | punct |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obj |
| 24 | spreading | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 tree | acl |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 spreading | compound:prt |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 boughs | nmod:poss |
| 27 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 boughs | amod |
| 28 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 spreading | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 covered | punct |
| 30 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 boughs | acl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 roses | case |
| 32 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 covered | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 grave | punct |
| 34 | over | over | ADP | _ | 36 grave | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 grave | det |
| 36 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past · passive | Palms and branches | the walls | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on wall=Destination | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | a great blooming rose tree | the middle of the court | over a grave | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme in middle=Destination | |||
| 3 | bloom | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | spread out | gerund | a great blooming rose tree not said here | court's fresh boughs | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bough=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cover | participle | court's fresh boughs not said here | with roses | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with rose=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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