Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 177
She then took the prince by the hand, and led him into her palace, the walls of which were richly colored, like a tulip-leaf when it is turned to the sun. The roof had the appearance of an inverted flower, and the colors grew deeper and brighter to the gazer.
Who acts: countenance, tulip leaf, colors · What happens: take, lead, color, turn, have, invert · To what, where: prince, palace, wall, appearance
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 (countenance, tulip leaf, colors), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hand | det |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 led | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 led | cc |
| 11 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 led | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 palace | nmod:poss |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 led | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 walls | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 walls | det |
| 18 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 palace | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 colored | obl |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 colored | aux:pass |
| 22 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 23 colored | advmod |
| 23 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 walls | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 leaf | punct |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 leaf | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 leaf | det |
| 27 | tulip | tulip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 leaf | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 tulip | punct |
| 29 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 had | nsubj |
| 30 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 33 turned | mark |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 turned | nsubj |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 turned | aux:pass |
| 33 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 leaf | advcl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 sun. | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 sun. | det |
| 36 | sun. | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 turned | obl |
| 37 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 roof | det |
| 38 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turned | obl |
| 39 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 led | parataxis |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 appearance | det |
| 41 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 had | obj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 flower | case |
| 43 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 flower | det |
| 44 | inverted | invert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 flower | amod |
| 45 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 appearance | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 grew | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 grew | cc |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 colors | det |
| 49 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 grew | nsubj |
| 50 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 51 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 50 grew | xcomp |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 brighter | cc |
| 53 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 51 deeper | conj |
| 54 | to | to | ADP | _ | 56 gazer | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 gazer | det |
| 56 | gazer | gazer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 grew | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | countenance | the prince | then | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument prince=Destination | ||
| 2 | lead | past | countenance not said here | prince | countenance's palace and the walls | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into palace=Destination | |||
| 3 | color | past · passive | of the walls; richly property | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | turn | present · passive | wall | sunday | the roof obl | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||
| 5 | have | past | a tulip leaf | the appearance of a inverted flower | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient | ||||
| 6 | invert | participle | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | grow | past | the colors | to the gazer; deep property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: 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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