Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 117

The great yellow citrons hung down among the dark shining leaves, and covered a part of the old reddish-yellow walls.

Who acts: dark, great yellow citrons · What happens: hang down, shine, cover · To what, where: great yellow citrons, dark, leaves, part

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dark, great yellow citrons), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 citrons	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 citrons	amod
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 citrons	amod
4	citrons	citron	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 covered	nsubj
5	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 citrons	acl
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 hung	compound:prt
7	among	among	ADP	_	9 dark	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dark	det
9	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hung	obl
10	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 dark	acl
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 shining	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 covered	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 covered	cc
14	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 part	det
16	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 covered	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	23 walls	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 walls	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 walls	amod
20	reddish	reddish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 yellow	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 reddish	punct
22	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 walls	amod
23	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 part	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hang down	participle		the great yellow citrons not said here	the dark	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among dark=Location
2	shine	gerund	the dark not said here	leaves		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme
3	cover	past	the great yellow citrons	a part of the old yellow walls		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Destination

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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