Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 223
Presently the background of the hall opened and the tree of knowledge appeared, surrounded by a halo of glory that almost blinded him.
Who acts: background, tree · What happens: open, appear, surround, blind · To what, where: glory
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 (background, tree), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 background | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 background | det |
| 3 | background | background | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opened | nsubj |
| 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 background | nmod |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 appeared | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 appeared | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 knowledge | case |
| 12 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | nmod |
| 13 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 opened | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 surrounded | punct |
| 15 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 appeared | xcomp |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 halo | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 halo | det |
| 18 | halo | halo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 glory | case |
| 20 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 halo | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 blinded | obj |
| 22 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 23 blinded | advmod |
| 23 | blinded | blind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 glory | acl:relcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 blinded | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the background of the hall | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | appear | past | the tree of knowledge | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | surround | participle | the tree of knowledge not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | blind | past | glory | almost property | tree rules |
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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