Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 22

The large hall within the elf hill was splendidly decorated; the floor had been washed with moonshine, and the walls had been rubbed with magic ointment, so that they glowed like tulip-leaves in the light.

Who acts: walls · What happens: decorate, wash, rub, glow · To what, where: large hall, floor, walls, light

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls), 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	3 hall	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hall	amod
3	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 decorated	nsubj:pass
4	within	within	ADP	_	7 hill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hill	det
6	elf	elf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hill	compound
7	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hall	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 decorated	aux:pass
9	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	_	10 decorated	advmod
10	decorated	decorate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 washed	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 floor	det
13	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 washed	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 washed	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 washed	aux:pass
16	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 decorated	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 moonshine	case
18	moonshine	moonshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 washed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rubbed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 rubbed	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 walls	det
22	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 rubbed	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 rubbed	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 rubbed	aux:pass
25	rubbed	rub	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 washed	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 ointment	case
27	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ointment	amod
28	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rubbed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 glowed	punct
30	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	33 glowed	mark
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 so	fixed
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 glowed	nsubj
33	glowed	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 washed	conj
34	like	like	ADP	_	37 leaves	case
35	tulip	tulip	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 leaves	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 tulip	punct
37	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 glowed	obl
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 light	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 light	det
40	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 glowed	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 decorated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	decorate	past · passive		the large hall within the elf hill		splendidly property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
2	wash	past · perfect · passive		the floor		with moonshine	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with moonshine=Instrument
3	rub	past · perfect · passive		the walls		with magic ointment	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with ointment=Theme
4	glow	past	walls = wall		the light	like tulip leaves	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location

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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