Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 5

In the garden could be seen the most singular flowers, with pretty silver bells tied to them, which tinkled so that every one who passed could not help noticing the flowers.

Who acts: pretty silver, one · What happens: see, bell, tie, tinkle, pass, not help · To what, where: singular flowers, garden, flowers

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty silver, one), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 garden	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 garden	det
3	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seen	obl
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 seen	aux:pass
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flowers	det
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 singular	advmod
9	singular	singular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flowers	amod
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 seen	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bells	punct
12	with	with	SCONJ	_	15 bells	mark
13	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 silver	amod
14	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bells	nsubj
15	bells	bell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	parataxis
16	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 bells	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tied	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tinkled	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 tinkled	nsubj
21	tinkled	tinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bells	conj
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	30 help	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 one	det
25	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 help	nsubj
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 passed	nsubj
27	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 one	acl:relcl
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 help	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 help	advmod
30	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 tinkled	advcl
31	noticing	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 help	xcomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 flowers	det
33	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 noticing	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	see	could · passive		the singular flowers		the garden	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: flower=Stimulus
2	bell	present	pretty silver				tree rules
3	tie	participle	pretty silver not said here		flowers = flower		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to they=Co-Patient
4	tinkle	past					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pass	past	every one				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not help	could	every one				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	notice not said to happen	gerund	every one not said here	the flowers			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus

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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