Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 7

Close by grew a slender, beautiful, rose-bush, but some wicked hand had broken the stem, and the half-opened rosebuds hung faded and withered on the trailing branches.

What happens: grow, break, open, fade, wither · To what, where: slender beautiful rose bush, wicked hand, opened rosebuds, trailing branches

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. 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	Close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 grew	advmod
2	by	by	SCONJ	_	3 grew	mark
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bush	det
5	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bush	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 slender	punct
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bush	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 beautiful	punct
9	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bush	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 rose	punct
11	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grew	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 broken	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 broken	cc
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 hand	det
15	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hand	amod
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 broken	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 broken	aux
18	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grew	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stem	det
20	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 broken	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 faded	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 faded	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 rosebuds	det
24	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	26 opened	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 half	punct
26	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 rosebuds	amod
27	rosebuds	rosebud	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 faded	nsubj:pass
28	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 faded	aux:pass
29	faded	fade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 grew	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 withered	cc
31	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 faded	conj
32	on	on	ADP	_	35 branches	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 branches	det
34	trailing	trailing	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 branches	compound
35	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 withered	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past	a slender beautiful rose bush		close property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bush=Theme
2	break	past · perfect · passive	some wicked hand			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient stem=Result
3	open	participle				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fade	past · passive	the opened rosebuds			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	wither	participle		the trailing branches		vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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