The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 128

At each side of the bridge trees were growing, from whose branches hung golden and silver apples, among which birds of Paradise perched.

Who acts: bridge trees, birds · What happens: grow, hang, perch · To what, where: golden apples, side

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridge trees, birds), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 side	case
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 side	det
3	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hung	obl
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 growing	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trees	det
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trees	compound
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 growing	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 growing	aux
9	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 hung	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 growing	punct
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 branches	case
12	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	13 branches	nmod:poss
13	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hung	obl
14	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 apples	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 silver	cc
17	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 golden	conj
18	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hung	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 perched	punct
20	among	among	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 perched	obl
22	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 perched	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Paradise	case
24	Paradise	Paradise	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 birds	nmod
25	perched	perch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hung	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past · progressive	the bridge trees				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hang	past		golden apples	each side	from branches	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent apple=Theme at side=Destination
3	perch	past	birds of Paradise				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among which=Location

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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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