Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 64

Dolls, exactly like real babies, were placed under the green leaves,--the tree had never seen such things before,--and at the very top was fastened a glittering star, made of tinsel.

What happens: place, not see, fasten, glitter, make · To what, where: Dolls, green leaves, tree, glittering star, top

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: 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	Dolls	doll	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 placed	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 babies	punct
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 babies	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 babies	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 babies	amod
6	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dolls	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dolls	punct
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 placed	aux:pass
9	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	under	under	ADP	_	13 leaves	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 leaves	det
12	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 leaves	amod
13	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 placed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seen	punct
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 seen	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tree	det
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seen	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seen	aux
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 seen	advmod
20	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 placed	advcl
21	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 things	amod
22	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 seen	obj
23	before	before	ADV	_	20 seen	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seen	punct
25	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 fastened	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fastened	cc
27	at	at	ADP	_	30 top	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 top	det
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 top	advmod
30	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fastened	obl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 fastened	aux:pass
32	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 placed	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 star	det
34	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 star	amod
35	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fastened	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 made	punct
37	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 star	acl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 tinsel	case
39	tinsel	tinsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 made	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	past · passive	Dolls and real babies	the green leaves		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under leaf=Destination
2	not see	past · perfect · passive	the tree		before property	tree rules
3	fasten	past · passive	a glittering star	the top		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: star=Patient
4	glitter	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	participle	a glittering star not said here		of tinsel	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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