Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 31

It was difficult to advance: wood lilies and anemones grew almost too high; flowering convolvuli and brambles were hanging like garlands from tree to tree; while the nightingales were singing and the sunbeams played.

Who acts: wood lilies, convolvuli, nightingales, sunbeams · What happens: be, advance, grow, flower, hang, sing · To what, where: convolvuli

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood lilies, convolvuli, nightingales, sunbeams), 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	3 difficult	expl
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 difficult	cop
3	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 advance	mark
5	advance	advance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 difficult	xcomp
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 grew	punct
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lilies	compound
8	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 grew	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 anemones	cc
10	anemones	anemone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lilies	conj
11	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 difficult	conj
12	almost	almost	ADV	_	13 too	advmod
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 high	advmod
14	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grew	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 flowering	punct
16	flowering	flower	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 grew	advcl
17	convolvuli	convolvuli	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 flowering	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 brambles	cc
19	brambles	bramble	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 convolvuli	conj
20	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 convolvuli	acl
21	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 were	xcomp
22	like	like	ADP	_	23 garlands	case
23	garlands	garland	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hanging	obl
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 tree	case
25	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 garlands	nmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 tree	case
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hanging	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 singing	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 singing	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 nightingales	det
31	nightingales	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 singing	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 singing	aux
33	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 grew	advcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 played	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sunbeams	det
36	sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 played	nsubj
37	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 singing	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 difficult	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			difficult property	tree rules
2	advance	to-infinitive				vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	grow	past	wood lilies and anemones		high property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	flower	gerund	wood lilies and anemones not said here	convolvuli and brambles		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location convolvuli=Theme
5	be	past	convolvuli and brambles not said here			tree rules
6	hang	gerund	convolvuli and brambles not said here		like garlands from tree; to tree	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	sing speech: express	past · progressive	the nightingales			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	play	past	the sunbeams			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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