Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 33

The elder children broke off the flowers with long stems, bent the stalks one round the other, to form links, and made first a chain for the neck, then one to go across the shoulders, and hang down to the waist, and at last a wreath to wear round the head, so that they looked quite splendid in their garlands of green stems and golden flowers.

Who acts: elder children, children · What happens: break off, bend, form, make, go, hang down · To what, where: flowers, stalks, links, chain, shoulders, last wreath

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder children, children), 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	3 children	det
2	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 children	amod
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 broke	nsubj
4	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 broke	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flowers	det
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 broke	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 stems	case
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stems	amod
10	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 broke	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bent	punct
12	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broke	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stalks	det
14	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bent	obj
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 stalks	flat
16	round	round	ADP	_	18 other	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 other	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 one	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 form	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 form	mark
21	form	form	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 bent	advcl
22	links	link	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 form	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 made	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 made	cc
25	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broke	conj
26	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 made	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 chain	det
28	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 neck	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 neck	det
31	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 one	punct
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 one	advmod
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 broke	obl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 go	mark
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 one	acl
37	across	across	ADP	_	39 shoulders	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 shoulders	det
39	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 go	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 hang	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 hang	cc
42	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	36 go	parataxis
43	down	down	ADP	_	42 hang	compound:prt
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 waist	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 waist	det
46	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 hang	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 wreath	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 wreath	cc
49	at	at	ADP	_	50 last	case
50	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 wreath	amod
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 wreath	det
52	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 hang	obl
53	to	to	PART	_	54 wear	mark
54	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 wreath	acl
55	round	round	ADP	_	57 head	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 head	det
57	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 wear	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 looked	punct
59	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	62 looked	mark
60	that	that	SCONJ	_	59 so	fixed
61	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 looked	nsubj
62	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 hang	conj
63	quite	quite	ADV	_	64 splendid	advmod
64	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 looked	xcomp
65	in	in	ADP	_	67 garlands	case
66	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	67 garlands	nmod:poss
67	garlands	garland	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 splendid	obl
68	of	of	ADP	_	70 stems	case
69	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 stems	amod
70	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 garlands	nmod
71	and	and	CCONJ	_	73 flowers	cc
72	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	73 flowers	amod
73	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 garlands	conj
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break off	past	the elder children	the flowers		with long stems; one obl	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent flower=Patient with stem=Instrument
2	bend	past	the elder children not said here	the stalks			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent stalk=Material
3	form	to-infinitive	the elder children not said here	links			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location link=Theme
4	make	past	the elder children not said here	a chain		for the neck; first property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent chain=Product for neck=Asset
5	go	to-infinitive			the shoulders		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across shoulder=Initial_Location
6	hang down	infinitive		a last wreath		to the waist	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	wear	to-infinitive		a last wreath not said here		round the head	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
8	look	past	children = child			splendid property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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