Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 43

Half-melted snow, partly covered with moss, sharp stones, and skeletons of walruses and polar-bears, lie all about, their gigantic limbs in a state of green decay.

Who acts: skeletons · What happens: melt, cover, lie · To what, where: melted snow, gigantic limbs

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 (skeletons), 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	Half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 melted	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Half	punct
3	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 snow	amod
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 covered	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 covered	punct
6	partly	partly	ADV	_	7 covered	advmod
7	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 moss	case
9	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 covered	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stones	punct
11	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stones	amod
12	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 moss	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lie	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lie	cc
15	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lie	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 walruses	case
17	walruses	walrus	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 skeletons	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 bears	cc
19	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bears	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 polar	punct
21	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 walruses	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lie	punct
23	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 covered	conj
24	all	all	ADV	_	25 about	advmod
25	about	about	ADV	_	23 lie	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 limbs	punct
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 limbs	nmod:poss
28	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 limbs	amod
29	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lie	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 state	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 state	det
32	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 limbs	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 decay	case
34	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 decay	amod
35	decay	decay	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 state	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	melt	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	cover	participle · passive		melted snow	with moss and sharp stones; partly property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with moss=Theme
3	lie	present	skeletons of walruses and polar bears	skeletons's gigantic limbs in a state of green decay	about property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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