Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 7

Now after a while the parents decided to place these two boxes across the water-pipe, so that they reached from one window to the other and looked like two banks of flowers.

Who acts: parents · What happens: decide, reach, look · To what, where: place, water pipe, one window

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 decided	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 while	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 while	det
4	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Now	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 parents	det
6	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 decided	nsubj
7	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 place	mark
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 decided	obj
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 boxes	det
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 boxes	nummod
12	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 decided	obj
13	across	across	ADP	_	17 pipe	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pipe	det
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pipe	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 water	punct
17	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 decided	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 reached	punct
19	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	22 reached	mark
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 so	fixed
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 reached	nsubj
22	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 decided	conj
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 window	case
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 window	nummod
25	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 reached	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 other	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 other	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 reached	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 looked	cc
30	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 reached	conj
31	like	like	ADP	_	33 banks	case
32	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 banks	nummod
33	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 looked	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 flowers	case
35	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 banks	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 decided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	past	the parents	place	the water pipe	now		tree rules
2	reach	past	parents = parent		one window		to the other	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	past	parents = parent not said here				like two banks of flowers	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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