Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 38

They came to a hut built of the bark of trees and branches; a large crab-apple tree spread its branches over it, as if it intended to pour all its fruit on the roof, upon which roses were blooming; the long boughs covered the gable, where a little bell was hanging.

Who acts: rocks, large apple tree, bark, roses, long boughs, little bell · What happens: come, build, spread, intend, pour, bloom · To what, where: hut, branches, bark, fruit, roof, gable

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 (rocks, large apple tree, bark, 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 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 hut	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hut	det
5	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
6	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hut	acl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 bark	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bark	det
9	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 built	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 trees	case
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 bark	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 branches	cc
13	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 trees	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 spread	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 tree	det
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tree	amod
17	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 apple	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 crab	punct
19	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tree	compound
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spread	nsubj
21	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 branches	nmod:poss
23	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 spread	obj
24	over	over	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 spread	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 intended	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 intended	mark
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 intended	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 intended	nsubj
30	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 spread	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 pour	mark
32	pour	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 intended	xcomp
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 fruit	det:predet
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 fruit	nmod:poss
35	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pour	obj
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 roof	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 roof	det
38	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pour	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 blooming	punct
40	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	44 blooming	mark
41	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	42 roses	det
42	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 blooming	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 blooming	aux
44	blooming	bloom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 pour	advcl
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 covered	punct
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 boughs	det
47	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 boughs	amod
48	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 covered	nsubj
49	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	parataxis
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 gable	det
51	gable	gable	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 covered	obj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 hanging	punct
53	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	58 hanging	advmod
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 bell	det
55	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 bell	amod
56	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 hanging	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 hanging	aux
58	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	51 gable	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	rocks = rock		a hut		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_Location
2	build	participle		a hut not said here		of the bark of trees and branches	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	spread	past	a large apple tree	bark's branches	bark		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme over it=Destination
4	intend a condition, not said to happen	past	bark				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	pour not said to happen	to-infinitive	bark not said here	bark's fruit	the roof		vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
6	bloom	past · progressive	which roses				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	cover	past	the long boughs	the gable			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gable=Destination
8	hang	past · progressive	a little bell				vn assuming_position-50 «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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