Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 46

And they were standing before the magnificently illuminated gate; the broad steps were adorned with carpets and flowers, and dance music was sounding through the festive halls.

Who acts: thoughts, dance music · What happens: stand, illuminate, adorn, sound · To what, where: illuminated gate, broad steps, festive halls

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, dance music), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 standing	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 standing	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 standing	aux
4	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	9 gate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gate	det
7	magnificently	magnificently	ADV	_	8 illuminated	advmod
8	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 gate	amod
9	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 standing	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 adorned	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 steps	det
12	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 steps	amod
13	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 adorned	nsubj:pass
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 adorned	aux:pass
15	adorned	adorn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 standing	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 carpets	case
17	carpets	carpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 adorned	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 flowers	cc
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 carpets	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sounding	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sounding	cc
22	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 music	compound
23	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sounding	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sounding	aux
25	sounding	sound	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 adorned	advcl
26	through	through	ADP	_	29 halls	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 halls	det
28	festive	festive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 halls	amod
29	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sounding	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 standing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	thoughts = thought		the illuminated gate		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before gate=Location
2	illuminate	participle				magnificently property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	adorn	past · passive		the broad steps		with carpets and flowers	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with carpet=Theme
4	sound	past · progressive	dance music		the festive halls		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hall=Location

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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