Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 42

The band was the green stalk, the cup of the flower the cradle in which lay the child, that now in blooming beauty had been folded to the mother's heart.

Who acts: band, cradle · What happens: be, lie, bloom, fold · To what, where: green stalk, child, beauty

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (band, cradle), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 band	det
2	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stalk	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stalk	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stalk	det
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stalk	amod
6	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cup	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cup	det
9	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stalk	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 flower	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 flower	det
12	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cup	nmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cradle	det
14	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flower	appos
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 which	case
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 lay	nsubj
17	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cradle	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 child	det
19	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 blooming	punct
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 blooming	nsubj
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 blooming	advmod
23	in	in	SCONJ	_	24 blooming	mark
24	blooming	bloom	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 cradle	acl
25	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 folded	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 folded	aux
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 folded	aux:pass
28	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 blooming	ccomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	33 heart	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mother	det
31	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heart	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 mother	case
33	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 folded	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stalk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the band	the green stalk and the cup of the flower			tree rules
2	lie	past	the cradle	the child			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location child=Theme
3	bloom	gerund	the cradle		now		tree rules
4	fold	past · perfect · passive		beauty		to the mother's heart result	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to heart=Result

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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