Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 163

At last they came to a blue lake, and by the side of it, shaded by trees of the deepest green, stood a palace of dazzling white marble, built in the olden times.

Who acts: swallow, palace · What happens: come, shade, stand, dazzle, build · To what, where: last, palace, white marble

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swallow, palace), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 lake	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lake	det
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lake	amod
8	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shaded	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 shaded	cc
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 side	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 side	det
13	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shaded	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 side	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 shaded	punct
17	shaded	shade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 came	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 trees	case
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 shaded	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 green	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 green	det
22	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 green	amod
23	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trees	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stood	punct
25	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 palace	det
27	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stood	obj
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 dazzling	mark
29	dazzling	dazzle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 palace	acl
30	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 marble	amod
31	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dazzling	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 built	punct
33	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 marble	acl
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 times	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 times	det
36	olden	olden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 times	amod
37	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 built	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	swallow		last		to a blue lake	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location
2	shade	participle	swallow not said here				by the side of side; by trees of the deepest green	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	stand	past	swallow not said here	a palace				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus
4	dazzle	gerund	a palace not said here	white marble				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus marble=Experiencer
5	build	participle		white marble not said here		time		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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