Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 8

Sweet-peas drooped over the boxes, and the rose-bushes shot forth long branches, which were trained round the windows and clustered together almost like a triumphal arch of leaves and flowers.

Who acts: Sweet peas · What happens: droop, shoot, train, cluster · To what, where: boxes, rose bushes, long branches

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 (Sweet peas), 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	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 peas	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Sweet	punct
3	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drooped	nsubj
4	drooped	droop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 boxes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boxes	det
7	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drooped	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shot	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 shot	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bushes	det
11	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bushes	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 rose	punct
13	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shot	nsubj:pass
14	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 drooped	advcl
15	forth	forth	ADV	_	16 long	advmod
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 branches	amod
17	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 shot	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 trained	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 trained	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 trained	aux:pass
21	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 branches	acl:relcl
22	round	round	ADP	_	24 windows	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 windows	det
24	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 trained	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 clustered	cc
26	clustered	cluster	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 trained	conj
27	together	together	ADV	_	26 clustered	advmod
28	almost	almost	ADV	_	32 arch	advmod
29	like	like	ADP	_	32 arch	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 arch	det
31	triumphal	triumphal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 arch	amod
32	arch	arch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 clustered	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 leaves	case
34	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 arch	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 flowers	cc
36	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 leaves	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drooped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	droop	past	Sweet peas		the boxes		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over box=Location
2	shoot	participle · passive		the rose bushes			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination branch=Theme
3	train	past · passive		long branches		round the windows	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	cluster	past				like a triumphal arch of leaves and flowers; together property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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