Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 169
Birds, flowers, and festoons appeared intermingled in seeming confusion.
What happens: intermingle, seem · To what, where: festoons, confusion
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: 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 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 flowers | punct |
| 3 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Birds | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 intermingled | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 intermingled | cc |
| 6 | festoons | festoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 intermingled | nsubj |
| 7 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 intermingled | aux:pass |
| 8 | intermingled | intermingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Birds | conj |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 seeming | mark |
| 10 | seeming | seem | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 intermingled | advcl |
| 11 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seeming | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Birds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intermingle | past · passive | festoons | vn amalgamate-22.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | seem | gerund | confusion | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme confusion=Attribute |
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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