Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 91

On arriving at the castle the king led her into marble halls, where large fountains played, and where the walls and the ceilings were covered with rich paintings.

Who acts: king, large fountains · What happens: arrive, lead, play, cover · To what, where: castle, head, marble halls, walls

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 (king, large fountains), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 arriving	mark
2	arriving	arrive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 led	advcl
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 castle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 castle	det
5	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arriving	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 led	nsubj
8	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 led	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 halls	case
11	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 halls	compound
12	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 led	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 played	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 played	advmod
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fountains	amod
16	fountains	fountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 played	nsubj
17	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 halls	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 covered	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 covered	cc
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 covered	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 walls	det
22	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 covered	nsubj:pass
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ceilings	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ceilings	det
25	ceilings	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 walls	conj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 covered	aux:pass
27	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 led	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 paintings	case
29	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 paintings	amod
30	paintings	painting	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 covered	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	gerund	the king not said here		the castle		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lead	past	the king	head	marble halls		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into hall=Destination
3	play	past	large fountains				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cover	past · passive		the walls and the ceilings		with rich paintings	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with painting=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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