Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 66

"I come from the wilds of the forests, where the thorny brambles form thick hedges between the trees; where the water-snake lies in the wet grass, and mankind seem to be unknown."

Who acts: mother, thorny brambles, snake lies · What happens: come, form, seem, be · To what, where: wilds, thick hedges

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 (mother, thorny brambles, snake lies), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 wilds	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wilds	det
6	wilds	wild	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 forests	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forests	det
9	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wilds	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 form	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 form	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 brambles	det
13	thorny	thorny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 brambles	amod
14	brambles	bramble	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 form	nsubj
15	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 come	conj
16	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hedges	amod
17	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 form	obj
18	between	between	ADP	_	20 trees	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trees	det
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hedges	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 seem	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 seem	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lies	det
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 snake	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 water	punct
26	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lies	compound
27	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 seem	nsubj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 grass	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 grass	det
30	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 grass	amod
31	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lies	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 mankind	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 mankind	cc
34	mankind	mankind	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 grass	conj
35	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 come	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	38 unknown	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 unknown	cop
38	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 seem	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present	the mother = mother		the wilds of the forests		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wild=Initial_Location
2	form in a quote	present	the thorny brambles	thick hedges		between the trees	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hedge=Theme
3	seem in a quote	present	the snake lies in the wet grass and mankind				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is in a quote	to-infinitive	the snake lies in the wet grass and mankind not said here			unknown 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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