Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 19

On the margin of the wood, near to three or four houses, a pole, as large as the mainmast of a ship, had been erected, and from the summit hung wreaths of flowers and fluttering ribbons; it was the Maypole.

Who acts: smelt · What happens: erect, hang, flutter, be · To what, where: margin, wreaths, summit, ribbons, Maypole

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smelt), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 margin	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 margin	det
3	margin	margin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 erected	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 wood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 margin	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 houses	punct
8	near	near	ADP	_	13 houses	case
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 three	case
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 houses	nummod
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 four	cc
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 three	conj
13	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wood	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pole	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pole	det
16	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wood	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 large	punct
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 large	case
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wood	amod
20	as	as	ADP	_	22 mainmast	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mainmast	det
22	mainmast	mainmast	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 large	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 ship	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 ship	det
25	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mainmast	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 margin	punct
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 erected	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 erected	aux:pass
29	erected	erect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 hung	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 hung	cc
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 summit	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 summit	det
34	summit	summit	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hung	obl
35	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 erected	parataxis
36	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 hung	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 flowers	case
38	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 wreaths	nmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 fluttering	cc
40	fluttering	flutter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 hung	conj
41	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 fluttering	obj
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 Maypole	punct
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 Maypole	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 Maypole	cop
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Maypole	det
46	Maypole	Maypole	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 erected	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 erected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	erect	past · perfect · passive			the margin of the wood and three houses and a pole	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»
2	hang	past		wreaths of flowers	the summit	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wreath=Patient
3	flutter	gerund		ribbons		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ribbon=Theme
4	is a	past	smelt	the Maypole		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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