Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 184

Here were portraits, each one appearing more beautiful than the other--millions of happy beings, whose laughter and song mingled in one sweet melody: some of these were in such an elevated position that they appeared smaller than the smallest rosebud, or like pencil dots on paper.

Who acts: one, millions, some · What happens: be, appear, mingle, elevate · To what, where: portraits, one sweet melody, elevated position

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 (one, millions, some), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 portraits	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 portraits	cop
3	portraits	portrait	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 mingled	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 portraits	appos
7	appearing	appear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 one	acl
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 beautiful	advmod
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 appearing	xcomp
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 other	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 other	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beautiful	obl
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	3 portraits	punct
14	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 mingled	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 beings	case
16	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 beings	amod
17	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 millions	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 laughter	punct
19	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	20 laughter	nmod:poss
20	laughter	laughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 beings	appos
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 song	cc
22	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 laughter	conj
23	mingled	mingle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 melody	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 melody	nummod
26	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 melody	amod
27	melody	melody	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mingled	obl
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 some	punct
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	37 position	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 these	case
31	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 some	nmod
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 position	cop
33	in	in	ADP	_	37 position	case
34	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	37 position	det:predet
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 position	det
36	elevated	elevate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 position	amod
37	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 melody	nmod
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 appeared	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 appeared	nsubj
40	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 position	advcl
41	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	40 appeared	xcomp
42	than	than	ADP	_	45 rosebud	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 rosebud	det
44	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	45 rosebud	amod
45	rosebud	rosebud	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 smaller	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 dots	punct
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	50 dots	cc
48	like	like	ADP	_	50 dots	case
49	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 dots	compound
50	dots	dot	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 rosebud	appos
51	on	on	ADP	_	52 paper	case
52	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 dots	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 mingled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		portraits	here		tree rules
2	appear	gerund	each one not said here			beautiful property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mingle	past	millions of happy beings		one sweet melody		vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	elevate	participle					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	some		such elevated position		tree rules
6	appear	past	millions = million			small 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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