Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 36

After that they took colors from the butterfly's wing, and sprinkled them over the white drapery which gleamed as if covered with flowers and diamonds, so that I could not recognize my sausage skewer at all.

Who acts: spiders, white drapery, I · What happens: take, sprinkle, gleam, cover, not recognize · To what, where: colors, wing, spiders, white drapery, sausage skewer, all

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 (spiders, white drapery, I), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 took	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 took	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	10 wing	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 butterfly	det
8	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wing	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 butterfly	case
10	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sprinkled	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sprinkled	cc
13	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sprinkled	obj
15	over	over	ADP	_	18 drapery	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 drapery	det
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 drapery	amod
18	drapery	drapery	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sprinkled	obl
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 gleamed	nsubj
20	gleamed	gleam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 drapery	acl:relcl
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 covered	mark
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 covered	mark
23	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 gleamed	xcomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 flowers	case
25	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 covered	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 diamonds	cc
27	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 flowers	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 recognize	punct
29	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	34 recognize	mark
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 so	fixed
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 recognize	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 recognize	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 recognize	advmod
34	recognize	recognize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sprinkled	conj
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 skewer	nmod:poss
36	sausage	sausage	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 skewer	compound
37	skewer	skewer	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 recognize	obj
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 all	case
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 recognize	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	spiders = spider	colors	the butterfly's wing	after that		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent color=Theme from wing=Initial_Location
2	sprinkle	past	spiders = spider not said here	spiders = spider	the white drapery			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme over drapery=Destination
3	gleam	past	the white drapery					tree rules
4	cover a condition, not said to happen	participle	the white drapery not said here				with flowers and diamonds	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme
5	not recognize	could	I	my sausage skewer	all			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skewer=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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