Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 13

Immediately all the flowers in the flower-pots became large trees, with long branches reaching to the ceiling, and stretching along the walls, so that the whole room was like a greenhouse.

Who acts: flowers, long branches, whole room · What happens: become, reach, stretch, be · To what, where: large trees, walls

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers, long branches, whole room), 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	Immediately	immediately	ADV	_	10 became	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 flowers	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flowers	det
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 became	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 pots	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pots	det
7	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pots	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 flower	punct
9	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flowers	nmod
10	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trees	amod
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 became	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 branches	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 branches	case
15	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 branches	amod
16	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 became	obl
17	reaching	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 branches	acl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 ceiling	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ceiling	det
20	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 reaching	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stretching	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stretching	cc
23	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 became	advcl
24	along	along	ADP	_	26 walls	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 walls	det
26	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stretching	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 greenhouse	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	36 greenhouse	advmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 greenhouse	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 room	det
31	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 room	amod
32	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 greenhouse	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 greenhouse	cop
34	like	like	ADP	_	36 greenhouse	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 greenhouse	det
36	greenhouse	greenhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stretching	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	all flowers in the flower pots	large trees		with long branches; immediately property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	reach	gerund	long branches not said here			to the ceiling	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stretch	gerund	all flowers in the flower pots not said here		the walls		vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along wall=Location
4	is	past	the whole room			like a greenhouse	tree rules

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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