Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 53

Under a glass beneath the picture hung a nosegay of withered flowers, which were no doubt half a century old too, at least they appeared so.

Who acts: withered flowers, flowers · What happens: hang, wither, be, appear · To what, where: nosegay, glass, doubt, least

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (withered flowers, flowers), 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	Under	under	ADP	_	3 glass	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 glass	det
3	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hung	obl
4	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	6 picture	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 picture	det
6	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glass	nmod
7	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 nosegay	det
9	nosegay	nosegay	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hung	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 flowers	case
11	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 flowers	amod
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 nosegay	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 doubt	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 doubt	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 doubt	cop
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 doubt	det
17	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flowers	conj
18	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	20 century	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 century	det
20	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 old	obl:unmarked
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hung	obl
22	too	too	ADV	_	21 old	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 appeared	punct
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 least	case
25	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 appeared	obl
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 appeared	nsubj
27	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hung	conj
28	so	so	ADV	_	27 appeared	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	past		a nosegay of withered flowers and no doubt	a glass beneath the picture	old obl	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nosegay=Theme under glass=Destination
2	wither	participle					vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is a	past	withered flowers and no doubt	no doubt			tree rules
4	appear	past	flowers = flower		least		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at least=Location

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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