Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 3
They grew near the shelter of the walls, wound themselves round columns and window-frames, crept along passages and over the ceilings of the halls.
Who acts: roses · What happens: grow, wound, creep · To what, where: shelter, roses, columns, passages
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roses), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | near | near | ADP | _ | 5 shelter | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shelter | det |
| 5 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 walls | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 walls | det |
| 8 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shelter | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wound | punct |
| 10 | wound | wound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 grew | conj |
| 11 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 wound | obj |
| 12 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 columns | case |
| 13 | columns | column | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 wound | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 frames | cc |
| 15 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 frames | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 window | punct |
| 17 | frames | frame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 columns | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 crept | punct |
| 19 | crept | creep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 columns | acl |
| 20 | along | along | ADP | _ | 21 passages | case |
| 21 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 crept | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ceilings | cc |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 ceilings | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ceilings | det |
| 25 | ceilings | ceiling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 passages | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 halls | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 halls | det |
| 28 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 ceilings | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | roses = rose | the shelter of the walls | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near shelter=Location | ||||
| 2 | wound | infinitive | roses = rose not said here | roses = rose | round columns and window frames | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | creep | participle | columns and window frames not said here | passages and the ceilings of the halls | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along passage=Trajectory |
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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