Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 61

Their lofty trunks stood so close together, that, when she looked before her, it seemed as if she were enclosed within trellis-work.

Who acts: lofty trunks, sunbeam, it · What happens: stand, look, seem, enclose · To what, where: that, sunbeam

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lofty trunks, sunbeam, it), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 trunks	nmod:poss
2	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trunks	amod
3	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 close	advmod
6	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stood	xcomp
7	together	together	ADV	_	6 close	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 that	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 stood	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looked	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 looked	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looked	nsubj
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
14	before	before	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 looked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seemed	nsubj
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	parataxis
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 enclosed	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 enclosed	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 enclosed	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 enclosed	aux:pass
23	enclosed	enclose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 seemed	xcomp
24	within	within	ADP	_	27 work	case
25	trellis	trellis	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 work	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 trellis	punct
27	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 enclosed	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	boughs's lofty trunks	that		close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	past	sunbeam		before daughter		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent before she=Theme
3	seem	past	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	enclose a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		sunbeam		within trellis work	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme

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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