Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 31

A honeysuckle hung forth from the hedge, in full bloom; but there were so many girls like her, with long faces and sallow complexions.

Who acts: honeysuckle · What happens: hang, be · To what, where: honeysuckle, hedge, many girls

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Butterfly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (honeysuckle), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 honeysuckle	det
2	honeysuckle	honeysuckle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 girls	nsubj
3	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 honeysuckle	acl
4	forth	forth	ADV	_	3 hung	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 hedge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hedge	det
7	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hung	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bloom	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 bloom	case
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bloom	amod
11	bloom	bloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hung	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 were	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 were	cc
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 were	expl
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 girls	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 many	advmod
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 girls	amod
18	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 girls	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 faces	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 faces	case
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 faces	amod
24	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 girls	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 complexions	cc
26	sallow	sallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 complexions	amod
27	complexions	complexion	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 faces	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 girls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	participle		a honeysuckle not said here		the hedge		in full bloom; forth property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bloom=Location
2	is a	past	a honeysuckle	many girls and long faces and sallow complexions				like girl	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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