Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 156

The boys still played in the garden, and the youngest wore the golden star on his breast, with which the tree had been adorned during the happiest evening of its existence.

Who acts: boys, youngest, breast · What happens: play, wear, adorn, exist · To what, where: garden, golden star, breast, tree

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys, youngest, breast), 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 boys	det
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 played	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 played	advmod
4	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 garden	det
7	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 played	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wore	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wore	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 youngest	det
11	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 wore	nsubj
12	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 played	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 star	det
14	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 star	amod
15	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wore	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 breast	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 breast	nmod:poss
18	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wore	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 adorned	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 adorned	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tree	det
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 adorned	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 adorned	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 adorned	aux:pass
26	adorned	adorn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 wore	conj
27	during	during	ADP	_	30 evening	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 evening	det
29	happiest	happy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 evening	amod
30	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 adorned	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 existence	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 existence	nmod:poss
33	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 evening	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	play	past	the boys		the garden	still	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wear	past	the youngest	the golden star	Humpty's breast		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent star=Source
3	adorn	past · perfect · passive		the tree		evening	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with which=Theme
4	exist		breast				nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent

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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