Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 165
A marble bridge, of such exquisite workmanship that it appeared as if formed of lace and pearls, led to the island of happiness, in which bloomed the garden of paradise.
Who acts: it, marble bridge, garden · What happens: appear, form, lead, bloom · To what, where: such exquisite workmanship, island
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, marble bridge, garden), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:8955): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bridge | det |
| 2 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bridge | compound |
| 3 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 led | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 workmanship | punct |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 workmanship | case |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 workmanship | amod |
| 7 | exquisite | exquisite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 workmanship | amod |
| 8 | workmanship | workmanship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bridge | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 appeared | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 appeared | nsubj |
| 11 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 workmanship | acl |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 formed | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 formed | mark |
| 14 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 appeared | advcl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lace | case |
| 16 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 formed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pearls | cc |
| 18 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lace | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 workmanship | punct |
| 20 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 island | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 island | det |
| 23 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 led | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 happiness | case |
| 25 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 island | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bloomed | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 bloomed | obl |
| 29 | bloomed | bloom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 island | acl:relcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 garden | det |
| 31 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bloomed | nsubj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 paradise | case |
| 33 | paradise | paradise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 garden | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | it | such exquisite workmanship not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location workmanship=Theme | ||||
| 2 | form | participle | of lace and pearls | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lead | past | a marble bridge of such exquisite workmanship | to the island of happiness | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to island=Patient | ||||
| 4 | bloom | past | the garden of paradise | the island of happiness | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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