Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 2, sentence 105

The seven tiers of boxes, which reached from the ground to a dizzy height, near the ceiling, were hung with rich, silken curtains; and in them were seated elegantly-dressed ladies, with bouquets of flowers in their hands.

Who acts: seven tiers · What happens: reach, hang, seat, dress · To what, where: ground, dressed ladies, hands

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (seven tiers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tiers	det
2	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 tiers	nummod
3	tiers	tier	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reached	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 boxes	case
5	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tiers	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reached	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 reached	nsubj
8	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 ground	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ground	det
11	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reached	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 height	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 height	det
14	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 height	amod
15	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reached	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ceiling	punct
17	near	near	ADP	_	19 ceiling	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ceiling	det
19	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 height	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hung	punct
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hung	aux:pass
22	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 reached	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	27 curtains	case
24	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 curtains	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rich	punct
26	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 curtains	amod
27	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hung	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 seated	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 seated	cc
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seated	obl
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 seated	aux:pass
33	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 reached	conj
34	elegantly	elegantly	ADV	_	36 dressed	advmod
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 elegantly	punct
36	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 ladies	amod
37	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 seated	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 bouquets	punct
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 bouquets	case
40	bouquets	bouquet	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 seated	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 flowers	case
42	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 bouquets	nmod
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 hands	case
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 hands	nmod:poss
45	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 seated	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	the seven tiers of boxes		the ground	to a dizzy height and the ceiling	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hang	past · passive	the seven tiers of boxes not said here			with rich silken curtains	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»
3	seat	past · passive	the seven tiers of boxes not said here	dressed ladies	tiers's hands	in tiers = tier; with bouquets of flowers	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: lady=Value in they=Location
4	dress	participle				elegantly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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