Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 42

Every piece of faggot in the pile had taken root, and threw out branches, and appeared a thick hedge, large and high, covered with roses; while above all bloomed a white and shining flower, that glittered like a star.

Who acts: piece, white flower · What happens: take, throw out, appear, cover, bloom, shine · To what, where: root, branches, thick hedge, all

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (piece, white flower), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taken	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 faggot	case
4	faggot	faggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 pile	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pile	det
7	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 taken	aux
9	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taken	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 threw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 threw	cc
13	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 taken	parataxis
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 threw	compound:prt
15	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 threw	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 appeared	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 appeared	cc
18	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 threw	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hedge	det
20	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hedge	amod
21	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 appeared	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 large	punct
23	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 appeared	advcl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 high	cc
25	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 large	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 covered	punct
27	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 large	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 roses	case
29	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 covered	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 bloomed	punct
31	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 bloomed	mark
32	above	above	ADP	_	34 bloomed	mark
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 bloomed	nsubj:pass
34	bloomed	bloom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 taken	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 flower	det
36	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 flower	amod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 shining	cc
38	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 white	conj
39	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bloomed	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 glittered	punct
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 glittered	nsubj
42	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 flower	acl:relcl
43	like	like	ADP	_	45 star	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 star	det
45	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 glittered	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past · perfect	every piece of faggot in the pile	root		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme
2	throw out	past		branches		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme
3	appear	past		a thick hedge		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hedge=Theme
4	cover	participle			with roses	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with rose=Theme
5	bloom	participle · passive		all		tree rules
6	shine	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	glitter	past	a white flower		like a star	vn light_emission-43.1 «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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