Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 78

Near yonder narrow road stands an old knight's castle; thick ivy creeps over the old ruined walls, leaf over leaf, even to the balcony, in which stands a beautiful maiden.

Who acts: thick ivy · What happens: stand, creep, ruin · To what, where: castle, narrow road, old ruined walls, beautiful maiden

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thick ivy), 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	Near	near	ADP	_	4 road	case
2	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	3 narrow	advmod
3	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 road	amod
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stands	obl
5	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 knight	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 knight	amod
8	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 castle	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 knight	case
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stands	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 creeps	punct
12	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ivy	amod
13	ivy	ivy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 creeps	nsubj
14	creeps	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stands	conj
15	over	over	ADP	_	19 walls	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 walls	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 walls	amod
18	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 walls	amod
19	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 creeps	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 leaf	punct
21	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 walls	conj
22	over	over	ADP	_	23 leaf	case
23	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leaf	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 balcony	punct
25	even	even	ADV	_	28 balcony	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 balcony	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 balcony	det
28	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 creeps	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stands	punct
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 stands	nsubj
32	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 creeps	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 maiden	det
34	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 maiden	amod
35	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stands	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stand	present		a old knight's castle	narrow road	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme near road=Destination
2	creep	present	thick ivy		the old ruined walls and leaf over leaf	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wall=Trajectory
3	ruin	participle				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	stand	present		a beautiful maiden		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=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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