Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 62

All the flowers were supported by human bones instead of sticks, and human skulls in the flower-pots grinned horribly.

Who acts: human bones, human skulls · What happens: support, grin · To what, where: flowers

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 (human bones, human skulls), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 flowers	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flowers	det
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 supported	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 supported	aux:pass
5	supported	support	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 bones	case
7	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bones	amod
8	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 supported	obl:agent
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	11 sticks	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 supported	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grinned	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 grinned	cc
14	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 skulls	amod
15	skulls	skull	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 grinned	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 pots	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pots	det
18	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pots	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 flower	punct
20	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 skulls	nmod
21	grinned	grin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 supported	conj
22	horribly	horribly	ADV	_	21 grinned	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 supported	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	support	past · passive	human bones	all flowers				instead sticks	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
2	grin	past	human skulls in the flower pots					horribly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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