Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 135

In the fresh, green fir-wood, where the snow lay all around, stood the angel of Christmas, and consecrated the young trees that were to adorn his feast.

Who acts: snow, young trees · What happens: lie, stand, consecrate, adorn · To what, where: angel, fresh green fir wood, young trees, feast

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow, young 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	_	8 wood	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wood	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fresh	punct
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wood	amod
6	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wood	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 fir	punct
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lay	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 lay	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snow	det
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wood	parataxis
14	all	all	ADV	_	15 around	advmod
15	around	around	ADV	_	13 lay	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wood	punct
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 angel	det
19	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Christmas	case
21	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 angel	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 consecrated	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 consecrated	cc
24	consecrated	consecrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stood	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 trees	det
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 trees	amod
27	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 consecrated	obj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 adorn	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 adorn	aux
30	to	to	PART	_	31 adorn	mark
31	adorn	adorn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 trees	acl:relcl
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 feast	nmod:poss
33	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 adorn	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the snow			around property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stand	past		the angel of Christmas	the fresh green fir wood		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent angel=Theme in wood=Destination
3	consecrate	past		the young trees			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
4	adorn	past	the young trees	snow's feast			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme feast=Destination

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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