Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 16

Outside the castle there was a beautiful garden, in which grew bright red and dark blue flowers, and blossoms like flames of fire; the fruit glittered like gold, and the leaves and stems waved to and fro continually.

Who acts: beautiful garden, fruit, leaves, fire · What happens: be, grow, glitter, wave, fro, flame · To what, where: beautiful garden, bright red blue flowers

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful garden, fruit, leaves, fire), 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	Outside	outside	ADP	_	3 castle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 castle	det
3	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 garden	obl
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 garden	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 garden	det
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 garden	amod
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 grew	nsubj
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 garden	conj
13	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flowers	amod
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flowers	amod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dark	cc
16	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 red	conj
17	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flowers	amod
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grew	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 blossoms	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 blossoms	cc
21	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 flowers	conj
22	like	like	ADP	_	23 flames	case
23	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 blossoms	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 fire	case
25	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flames	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 glittered	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fruit	det
28	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 glittered	nsubj
29	glittered	glitter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 garden	conj
30	like	like	ADP	_	31 gold	case
31	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 glittered	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 waved	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 waved	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 leaves	det
35	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 waved	nsubj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 stems	cc
37	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 leaves	conj
38	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 glittered	parataxis
39	to	to	ADP	_	38 waved	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 fro	cc
41	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 waved	conj
42	continually	continually	ADV	_	41 fro	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 garden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a beautiful garden	outside the castle	tree rules
2	grow	past	a beautiful garden	bright red blue flowers and blossoms like flames of fire		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme
3	glitter	participle	the fruit		like gold	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wave	past	the leaves and stems			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fro	infinitive	the leaves and stems not said here		continually property	tree rules
6	flame		fire			nom flame «process intransitive»: of=agent

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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