Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 33

The flowers which had been here in the dark troublous time had been much more beautiful; but they had been cut off, one after another, to be woven into wreaths and placed in coffins, and the flag had waved over them!

Who acts: flowers · What happens: be, cut off, weave, place, wave · To what, where: stories, wreaths, coffins, flag

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flowers	det
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 beautiful	nsubj
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 here	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 here	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 here	cop
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 flowers	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 time	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
9	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
10	troublous	troublous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 here	obl
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 beautiful	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 beautiful	cop
14	much	much	ADV	_	15 more	advmod
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 beautiful	advmod
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 cut	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 cut	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cut	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 cut	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 cut	aux:pass
22	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 beautiful	advcl
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 cut	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 one	punct
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 cut	parataxis
26	after	after	ADP	_	27 another	case
27	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 one	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 woven	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	31 woven	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 woven	aux:pass
31	woven	weave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 cut	conj
32	into	into	ADP	_	33 wreaths	case
33	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 woven	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 placed	cc
35	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 woven	conj
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 coffins	case
37	coffins	coffin	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 placed	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 waved	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 waved	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 flag	det
41	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 waved	nsubj:pass
42	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 waved	aux
43	waved	wave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 beautiful	conj
44	over	over	ADP	_	45 them	case
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 waved	obl
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 beautiful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	the flowers			time	here property	tree rules
2	is	past · perfect	the flowers				beautiful property	tree rules
3	cut off	past · perfect · passive		stories = story				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
4	weave	to-infinitive · passive			wreaths			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: into wreath=Destination
5	place	participle			coffins			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in coffin=Destination
6	wave	past · perfect · passive		the flag			over stories = story	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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