Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 32

It was her only comfort to sit in her own little garden, and fling her arm round the beautiful marble statue which was like the prince; but she gave up tending her flowers, and they grew in wild confusion over the paths, twining their long leaves and stems round the branches of the trees, so that the whole place became dark and gloomy.

Who acts: snow, beautiful marble statue, face, flowers, whole place · What happens: be, sit, fling, give up, tend, grow · To what, where: only comfort, own little garden, arm, flowers, wild confusion, long leaves

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow, beautiful marble statue, face, flowers), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 comfort	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 comfort	cop
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 comfort	nmod:poss
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 comfort	amod
5	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sit	mark
7	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 comfort	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 garden	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 garden	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 garden	amod
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 garden	amod
12	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fling	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fling	cc
15	fling	fling	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sit	conj
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 arm	nmod:poss
17	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fling	obj
18	round	round	ADP	_	22 statue	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 statue	det
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 statue	amod
21	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 statue	compound
22	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fling	obl
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 prince	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 prince	cop
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 prince	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 prince	det
27	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 statue	acl:relcl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 gave	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 gave	cc
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 gave	nsubj
31	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 comfort	parataxis
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 gave	compound:prt
33	tending	tend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 gave	advcl
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 flowers	nmod:poss
35	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 tending	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 grew	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 grew	cc
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 grew	nsubj
39	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 gave	conj
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 confusion	case
41	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 confusion	amod
42	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 grew	obl
43	over	over	ADP	_	45 paths	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 paths	det
45	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 grew	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 twining	punct
47	twining	twine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 grew	advcl
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 leaves	nmod:poss
49	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 leaves	amod
50	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 twining	obj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 stems	cc
52	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 leaves	conj
53	round	round	ADP	_	55 branches	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 branches	det
55	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 twining	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 trees	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 trees	det
58	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 branches	nmod
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 became	punct
60	so	so	ADV	_	65 became	advmod
61	that	that	SCONJ	_	65 became	mark
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 place	det
63	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 place	amod
64	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 became	nsubj
65	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 gave	conj
66	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 became	xcomp
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 gloomy	cc
68	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 dark	conj
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 comfort	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	snow	face's only comfort			tree rules
2	sit	to-infinitive			face's own little garden		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location
3	fling	infinitive		face's arm		round the beautiful marble statue	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
4	is	past	the beautiful marble statue			like the prince	tree rules
5	give up	past	face				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	tend	gerund	face not said here	face's flowers			vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme
7	grow	past	flowers = flower		wild confusion	over the paths	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in confusion=Location
8	twine	gerund	flowers = flower not said here	flowers's long leaves and stems	the branches of the trees		vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme round branch=Destination
9	become	past	the whole place			dark property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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