Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 220

Beautiful maidens, slender and graceful in form, and robed in transparent gauze, floated through the dance, and sang of the happy life in the garden of paradise, where death never entered, and where all would bloom forever in immortal youth.

Who acts: death, all · What happens: robe, float, sing, not enter, bloom · To what, where: transparent gauze, dance, garden, immortal youth

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 (death, all), 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	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 maidens	amod
2	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slender	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 slender	punct
4	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 graceful	cc
6	graceful	graceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slender	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 form	case
8	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 graceful	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 robed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 robed	cc
11	robed	robe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 slender	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 gauze	case
13	transparent	transparent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gauze	amod
14	gauze	gauze	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 robed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 floated	punct
16	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 gauze	acl
17	through	through	ADP	_	19 dance	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dance	det
19	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 floated	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sang	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sang	cc
22	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slender	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 life	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 life	det
25	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 life	amod
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sang	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 garden	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 garden	det
29	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sang	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 paradise	case
31	paradise	paradise	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 garden	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 entered	punct
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 entered	advmod
34	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 entered	nsubj
35	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	36 entered	advmod
36	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 paradise	acl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 bloom	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 bloom	cc
39	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	42 bloom	advmod
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 bloom	nsubj
41	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 bloom	aux
42	bloom	bloom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slender	conj
43	forever	forever	ADV	_	42 bloom	advmod
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 youth	case
45	immortal	immortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 youth	amod
46	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 bloom	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 slender	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	robe	participle				in transparent gauze	vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in gauze=Theme
2	float	participle		transparent gauze not said here	the dance		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through dance=Trajectory
3	sing speech: express	past			the garden of paradise	of the happy life	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location
4	not enter	past	death				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bloom	would	all		immortal youth	forever property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in youth=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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