Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 43

Sometimes the forests were thick and dark, sometimes like a beautiful garden, gay with sunshine and flowers; then he passed great palaces of glass and of marble, and on the balconies stood princesses, whose faces were those of little girls whom Hjalmar knew well, and had often played with.

Who acts: forests, Hjalmar, faces · What happens: be, pass, stand, know, play · To what, where: great palaces, princesses, balconies, those, little girls

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 (forests, Hjalmar, faces), 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	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 thick	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 forests	det
3	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thick	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thick	cop
5	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dark	cc
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thick	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 garden	punct
9	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 garden	advmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 garden	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 garden	det
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 garden	amod
13	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thick	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gay	punct
15	gay	gay	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 garden	appos
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 sunshine	case
17	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gay	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 flowers	cc
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 sunshine	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 passed	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 passed	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 passed	nsubj
23	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thick	parataxis
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 palaces	amod
25	palaces	palace	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 passed	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 glass	case
27	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 palaces	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 marble	cc
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 marble	case
30	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 palaces	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 stood	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 stood	cc
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 balconies	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 balconies	det
35	balconies	balcony	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 stood	obl
36	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 passed	conj
37	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 stood	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 those	punct
39	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	40 faces	nmod:poss
40	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 those	nsubj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 those	cop
42	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	37 princesses	appos
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 girls	case
44	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 girls	amod
45	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 those	nmod
46	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 knew	obj
47	Hjalmar	Hjalmar	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 knew	nsubj
48	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 girls	acl:relcl
49	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	48 knew	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 played	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 played	cc
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 played	aux
53	often	often	ADV	_	54 played	advmod
54	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 stood	conj
55	with	with	ADP	_	54 played	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the forests				sometimes, thick property	tree rules
2	be		the forests not said here					tree rules
3	pass	past	Hjalmar	great palaces of glass and marble		then		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Trajectory
4	stand	past	Hjalmar not said here	princesses	the balconies			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent princess=Theme on balcony=Destination
5	is a	past	faces	those			of little girls	tree rules
6	know	past	Hjalmar	little girls			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
7	play	past · perfect	Hjalmar not said here				often property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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