Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 47

Then some people came into the room, and, among them, the young countess,--the lady who had placed the apple-bough in the transparent vase, so pleasantly beneath the rays of the sunlight.

Who acts: people, lady · What happens: come, place, ray · To what, where: room, apple bough, transparent vase, sunlight

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 (people, lady), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 people	det
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 them	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 them	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 and	punct
11	among	among	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 them	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 countess	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 countess	amod
16	countess	countess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 them	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lady	punct
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 lady	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lady	det
20	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 countess	appos
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 placed	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 placed	aux
23	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 lady	acl:relcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bough	det
25	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bough	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 apple	punct
27	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 placed	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 vase	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 vase	det
30	transparent	transparent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 vase	amod
31	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 placed	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 rays	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 pleasantly	advmod
34	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	_	37 rays	advmod
35	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	37 rays	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 rays	det
37	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 countess	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 sunlight	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 sunlight	det
40	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 rays	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	some people		the room	then	among rooms = room	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
2	place	past · perfect	the lady	the apple bough	the transparent vase			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bough=Theme in vase=Destination
3	ray			the sunlight				nom ray «phenomenon 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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