Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 63

On one branch they hung little bags cut out of colored paper, and each bag was filled with sweetmeats; from other branches hung gilded apples and walnuts, as if they had grown there; and above, and all round, were hundreds of red, blue, and white tapers, which were fastened on the branches.

Who acts: servants, little bags · What happens: hang, cut out, color, fill, gild, grow · To what, where: little bags, one branch, colored paper, bag, gilded apples, other branches

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 (servants, little bags), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 branch	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 branch	nummod
3	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hung	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hung	nsubj
5	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bags	amod
7	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hung	obj
8	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 bags	acl
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 paper	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 paper	case
11	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 paper	amod
12	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cut	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 filled	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 filled	cc
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 bag	det
16	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 filled	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 filled	aux:pass
18	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hung	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 sweetmeats	case
20	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 filled	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 hung	punct
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 branches	case
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 branches	amod
24	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hung	obl
25	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hung	conj
26	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 apples	amod
27	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hung	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 walnuts	cc
29	walnuts	walnut	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 apples	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 grown	punct
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 grown	mark
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 grown	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 grown	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 grown	aux
35	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 hung	conj
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 grown	advmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 above	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 above	cc
39	above	above	ADV	_	5 hung	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 hundreds	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 hundreds	cc
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 hundreds	det
43	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 all	amod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 all	punct
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 hundreds	cop
46	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hung	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 red	case
48	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 hundreds	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 blue	punct
50	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 red	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 tapers	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 tapers	cc
53	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 tapers	amod
54	tapers	taper	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hung	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 fastened	punct
56	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 fastened	nsubj:pass
57	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 fastened	aux:pass
58	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 tapers	acl:relcl
59	on	on	ADP	_	61 branches	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 branches	det
61	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 fastened	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	past	servants = servant	little bags	one branch	white tapers obl; above property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme on branch=Destination
2	cut out	participle	little bags not said here	colored paper			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector paper=Eventuality
3	color	participle					vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	fill	past · passive		each bag		with sweetmeats	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with sweetmeat=Instrument
5	hang	past	servants = servant not said here	gilded apples and walnuts	other branches		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient
6	gild	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
7	grow a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	servants = servant		there		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is a	past		all hundreds		of red	tree rules
9	fasten	past · passive		white tapers		on the branches	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient on branch=Co-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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