Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 34

We have seen them standing in the middle of a warm room, and adorned with all sorts of beautiful things,--honey cakes, gilded apples, playthings, and many hundreds of wax tapers."

Who acts: We · What happens: see, stand, adorn, gild, sort · To what, where: branches, middle, many hundreds, beautiful things

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 (We), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 seen	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	aux
3	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seen	obj
5	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 seen	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 middle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 middle	det
8	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 room	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 room	det
11	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 room	amod
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 middle	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 adorned	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 adorned	cc
15	adorned	adorn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 seen	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 sorts	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 sorts	det
18	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 adorned	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 things	case
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 things	amod
21	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sorts	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 things	punct
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 cakes	punct
24	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cakes	compound
25	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 things	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 apples	punct
27	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 apples	amod
28	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 things	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 playthings	punct
30	playthings	plaything	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 things	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hundreds	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 hundreds	cc
33	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 hundreds	amod
34	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 adorned	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 tapers	case
36	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tapers	compound
37	tapers	taper	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 hundreds	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seen	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present · perfect	We	branches = branch			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	stand	gerund	We not said here		the middle of a warm room		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location
3	adorn	participle	We not said here	many hundreds of wax tapers		with all sorts of beautiful things and honey cakes and gilded apples and playthings	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sort=Theme
4	gild	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
5	sort			beautiful things and honey cakes and gilded apples and playthings			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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