Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 48

Long before the sun went down, she sat on a rock, in front of a large cave, on the floor of which the over-grown yet delicate green creeping plants looked like an embroidered carpet. "

Who acts: sun, Eliza, over-grown green creeping plants · What happens: go down, sit, creep, look, embroider · To what, where: rock

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 (sun, Eliza, over-grown green creeping plants), 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	Long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 went	advmod
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 went	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 rock	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 rock	det
12	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 front	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 front	case
15	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 cave	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cave	det
18	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 cave	amod
19	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 front	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 floor	punct
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 floor	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 floor	det
23	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 looked	obl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 plants	det
27	over-grown	over-grown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 plants	amod
28	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	29 delicate	cc
29	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 over-grown	conj
30	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 plants	amod
31	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 plants	amod
32	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 looked	nsubj
33	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 floor	acl:relcl
34	like	like	ADP	_	37 carpet	case
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 carpet	det
36	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 carpet	amod
37	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 looked	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go down	past	the sun		down, long property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	sit	past	Eliza	a rock	in front of a large cave; on the floor	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location
3	creep	gerund				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look	past	the over-grown green creeping plants		of the floor; like a embroidered carpet	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent of which=Theme
5	embroider	participle				vn image_impression-25.1 «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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