Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 41

In the centre, rose a castle apparently a mile long, with rows of columns, rising one above another, while, around it, palm-trees waved and flowers bloomed as large as mill wheels.

Who acts: palm trees · What happens: rise, wave, bloom · To what, where: castle, centre, one, another, flowers

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (palm trees), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 centre	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 centre	det
3	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rose	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 centre	punct
5	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 castle	det
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rose	obj
8	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	11 long	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mile	det
10	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 long	obl:unmarked
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 castle	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rows	punct
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 rows	case
14	rows	row	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rose	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 columns	case
16	columns	column	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 rows	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rising	punct
18	rising	rise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 rose	conj
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 rising	obj
20	above	above	ADP	_	21 another	case
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	19 one	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 it	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 it	mark
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 it	punct
25	around	around	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rising	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 waved	punct
28	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 trees	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 palm	punct
30	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 waved	nsubj
31	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 it	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 flowers	cc
33	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 waved	obj
34	bloomed	bloom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 flowers	acl
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 large	advmod
36	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 bloomed	xcomp
37	as	as	ADP	_	39 wheels	case
38	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wheels	compound
39	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 large	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past		a castle	the centre	with rows of columns	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location castle=Theme
2	rise	gerund		one	another		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
3	wave	past	palm trees	flowers			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
4	bloom	participle		flowers not said here		large property	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=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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