Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 195

A large gilt frame surrounded it, and on one corner of the frame a laurel wreath had been hung; but a black band, twined unseen among the green leaves, and a streamer of crape, hung down from it; for within the last few days the young artist had--died.

Who acts: large gilt frame, young artist · What happens: surround, hang, twine, hang down, have, die · To what, where: frame, laurel wreath, one corner, streamer, last few days

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large gilt frame, young artist), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 frame	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 frame	amod
3	gilt	gilt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 frame	amod
4	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 twined	nsubj
5	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 frame	acl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 surrounded	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hung	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hung	cc
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 corner	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 corner	nummod
11	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hung	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 frame	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 frame	det
14	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 corner	nmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 wreath	det
16	laurel	laurel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wreath	compound
17	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hung	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 hung	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 hung	aux:pass
20	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 surrounded	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 twined	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 twined	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 band	det
24	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 band	amod
25	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 twined	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 band	punct
27	twined	twine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 twined	xcomp
29	among	among	ADP	_	32 leaves	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 leaves	det
31	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 leaves	amod
32	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 unseen	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 hung	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 hung	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 streamer	det
36	streamer	streamer	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 hung	nsubj:pass
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 crape	case
38	crape	crape	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 streamer	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 hung	punct
40	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 twined	parataxis
41	down	down	ADP	_	40 hung	compound:prt
42	from	from	ADP	_	43 it	case
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 hung	obl
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 days	punct
45	for	for	ADP	_	50 days	case
46	within	within	ADP	_	50 days	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 days	det
48	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 days	amod
49	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 days	amod
50	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 hung	obl
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 artist	det
52	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 artist	amod
53	artist	artist	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 had	nsubj
54	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 days	acl:relcl
55	--	--	PUNCT	_	56 died	punct
56	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 had	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 twined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	surround	participle	a large gilt frame not said here	frame				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
2	hang	past · perfect · passive		a laurel wreath	one corner of the frame			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on corner=Destination
3	twine	past	a large gilt frame				unseen property	vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
4	hang down	participle · passive		a streamer of crape	frame	day		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	have	past	the young artist	the last few days not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Patient
6	die	past	the young artist not said here					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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