Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 170

Close by, on the grass, stood a group of peacocks, with radiant tails outspread to the sun. The prince touched them, and found, to his surprise, that they were not really birds, but the leaves of the burdock tree, which shone with the colors of a peacock's tail.

Who acts: radiant tails, prince, tails, leaves · What happens: stand, outspread, touch, find, not be, shine · To what, where: group, grass, tails, birds

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 (radiant tails, prince, tails, leaves), 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	Close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 stood	advmod
2	by	by	ADP	_	1 Close	fixed
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Close	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grass	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 grass	punct
8	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 group	det
10	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stood	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 peacocks	case
12	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 group	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 outspread	punct
14	with	with	SCONJ	_	17 outspread	mark
15	radiant	radiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tails	amod
16	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 outspread	nsubj
17	outspread	outspread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 sun.	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun.	det
20	sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 outspread	obl
21	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 prince	det
22	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 touched	nsubj
23	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 sun.	acl:relcl
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 touched	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 found	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 found	cc
27	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 surprise	punct
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 surprise	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 surprise	nmod:poss
31	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 found	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 birds	punct
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 birds	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 birds	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 birds	cop
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 birds	advmod
37	really	really	ADV	_	38 birds	advmod
38	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 found	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 shone	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 shone	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 leaves	det
42	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 shone	nsubj
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 tree	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 tree	det
45	burdock	burdock	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 tree	compound
46	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 leaves	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 shone	punct
48	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 shone	nsubj
49	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 stood	conj
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 colors	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 colors	det
52	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 shone	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	57 tail	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 peacock	det
55	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 tail	nmod:poss
56	's	's	PART	_	55 peacock	case
57	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 colors	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		a group of peacocks	the grass		close property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent group=Theme on grass=Destination
2	outspread	present	radiant tails			sunday		tree rules
3	touch	past	the prince	tails = tail				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme
4	find	past					to prince's surprise	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	not is a	past	tails = tail	birds				tree rules
6	shine	past	the leaves of the burdock tree				with the colors of a peacock's tail	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with color=Theme
7	surprise		prince					nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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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