Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 101

Large red and blue flowers shone on the walls, looking like sunflowers in size, but no one could dare to pluck them, for the stems were hideous poisonous snakes, and the flowers were flames of fire, darting out of their jaws.

Who acts: one, stems, flowers, hideous poisonous snakes · What happens: shine, look, dare, pluck, be, dart · To what, where: Large red flowers, walls, hideous poisonous snakes, flames, jaws

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, stems, flowers, hideous poisonous snakes), 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	Large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flowers	amod
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flowers	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 blue	cc
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 red	conj
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	shone	shine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 flowers	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 walls	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 walls	det
9	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shone	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 looking	punct
11	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 shone	advcl
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 sunflowers	case
13	sunflowers	sunflower	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 looking	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 size	case
15	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looking	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 dare	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 dare	cc
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dare	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 dare	aux
21	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 flowers	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 pluck	mark
23	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 dare	xcomp
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 pluck	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stems	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 stems	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 stems	det
28	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 snakes	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 snakes	cop
30	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 snakes	amod
31	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 snakes	amod
32	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 pluck	parataxis
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 flames	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 flames	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 flowers	det
36	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 flames	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 flames	cop
38	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 snakes	conj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 fire	case
40	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 flames	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 darting	punct
42	darting	dart	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 snakes	acl
43	out	out	ADP	_	46 jaws	case
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 jaws	case
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 jaws	nmod:poss
46	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 darting	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 flowers	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	participle		Large red flowers not said here	the walls		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wall=Location
2	look	gerund				like sunflowers; in size	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in size=Theme
3	dare	could	no one				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pluck	to-infinitive	no one not said here	walls = wall			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	is a	past	the stems	hideous poisonous snakes and flames			tree rules
6	is a	past	the flowers	flames		of fire	tree rules
7	dart	gerund	hideous poisonous snakes and flames not said here		flowers's jaws		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out jaw=Trajectory

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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