Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 168
The climbing plants hung in garlands of green and gold, like the illuminations on the margins of old missals or twined among the initial letters.
Who acts: climbing plants · What happens: hang, twine · To what, where: garlands
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 (climbing plants), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 plants | det |
| 2 | climbing | climbing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 plants | compound |
| 3 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hung | nsubj |
| 4 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 garlands | case |
| 6 | garlands | garland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hung | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 green | case |
| 8 | green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 garlands | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gold | cc |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 green | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 illuminations | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 illuminations | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 illuminations | det |
| 14 | illuminations | illumination | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hung | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 margins | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 margins | det |
| 17 | margins | margin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 illuminations | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 missals | case |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 missals | amod |
| 20 | missals | missal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 margins | nmod |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 twined | cc |
| 22 | twined | twine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 hung | conj |
| 23 | among | among | ADP | _ | 26 letters | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 letters | det |
| 25 | initial | initial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 letters | amod |
| 26 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 twined | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | participle | the climbing plants | garlands of green and gold | like the illuminations on the margins of old missals | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garland=Location | |||
| 2 | twine | participle | the climbing plants not said here | among the initial letters | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
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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