Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Evening, sentence 4

They straggled wild over the paths, and the ragged branches grew up among the boughs of the apple trees; here and there were a few roses still in bloom--not so fair as the queen of flowers generally appears, but still they had colour and scent too.

Who acts: flowers, ragged branches, few roses · What happens: straggle, grow up, be, appear, have · To what, where: paths, boughs, bloom, colour

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers, ragged branches, few 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 straggled	nsubj
2	straggled	straggle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 straggled	xcomp
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 paths	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 paths	det
6	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 straggled	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grew	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 branches	det
10	ragged	ragged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 branches	amod
11	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grew	nsubj
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 straggled	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 grew	compound:prt
14	among	among	ADP	_	16 boughs	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boughs	det
16	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grew	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 trees	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trees	det
19	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 trees	compound
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 boughs	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 straggled	punct
22	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 straggled	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 were	cc
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 were	expl
25	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 straggled	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 roses	det
27	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 roses	amod
28	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 were	nsubj
29	still	still	ADV	_	31 bloom	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 bloom	case
31	bloom	bloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 were	obl
32	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 fair	punct
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 fair	advmod
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 fair	advmod
35	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bloom	acl:relcl
36	as	as	ADP	_	38 queen	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 queen	det
38	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fair	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 flowers	case
40	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 queen	nmod
41	generally	generally	ADV	_	42 appears	advmod
42	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 flowers	acl:relcl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 had	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 had	cc
45	still	still	ADV	_	47 had	advmod
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 had	nsubj
47	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 straggled	conj
48	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 had	obj
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 scent	cc
50	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 colour	conj
51	too	too	ADV	_	47 had	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 straggled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	straggle	past	flowers = flower		the paths; here		wild property	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over path=Location
2	grow up	past	the ragged branches		the boughs of the apple trees			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among bough=Location
3	be	past	a few roses		bloom; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bloom=Location
4	appear	present	flowers not said here				generally property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past	flowers = flower	colour and scent		still		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient

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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