Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 185
In the centre of the hall stood a tree, with drooping branches, from which hung golden apples, both great and small, looking like oranges amid the green leaves.
What happens: stand, droop, hang, look · To what, where: tree, centre, golden apples
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 centre | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 centre | det |
| 3 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hall | det |
| 6 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 centre | nmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 branches | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 branches | case |
| 12 | drooping | droop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 branches | amod |
| 13 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stood | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hung | punct |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 hung | nsubj |
| 17 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | conj |
| 18 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 apples | amod |
| 19 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hung | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 great | punct |
| 21 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 22 great | cc:preconj |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hung | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 small | cc |
| 24 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 great | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 looking | punct |
| 26 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 hung | advcl |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 oranges | case |
| 28 | oranges | orange | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 looking | obl |
| 29 | amid | amid | ADP | _ | 32 leaves | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 leaves | det |
| 31 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 leaves | amod |
| 32 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 looking | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a tree | the centre of the hall | with drooping branches | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme in centre=Destination | |||
| 2 | droop | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | hang | past | golden apples | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient | |||||
| 4 | look | gerund | like oranges; amid the green leaves | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent amid leaf=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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