Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 192

The banana-trees bent their drooping branches over the boat, black swans floated on the water, and singular animals and flowers appeared on the distant shore.

Who acts: banana trees, singular animals · What happens: bend, droop, float, appear · To what, where: drooping branches, boat, black swans, water, distant shore

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 (banana trees, singular animals), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trees	det
2	banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trees	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 banana	punct
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bent	nsubj
5	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 branches	nmod:poss
7	drooping	droop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 branches	amod
8	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bent	obj
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 boat	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boat	det
11	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bent	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 swans	punct
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 swans	amod
14	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 boat	appos
15	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 swans	acl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 water	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 water	det
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 floated	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 appeared	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 appeared	cc
21	singular	singular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 animals	amod
22	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 appeared	nsubj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 flowers	cc
24	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 animals	conj
25	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bent	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 shore	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 shore	det
28	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 shore	amod
29	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 appeared	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	bend	past	the banana trees	shepherds's drooping branches	the boat	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme over boat=Location
2	droop	gerund				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	float	participle		black swans not said here	the water	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory
4	appear	past	singular animals and flowers		the distant shore	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Location

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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