Grammar tree practice [AM]

[ActiveMind]

@Elliot

My quick guess is that “in a tree” is a child of “hang” not of “up”.

I lean more towards this. Maybe I should have made it clearer that I liked “in a tree” modifying “hang” a bit more in this quote:

@ActiveMind

Now I see you could just say “they hang it up” where ‘up’ is just an adverb. I checked New Oxford and it had ‘up’ as primarily an adverb and as a preposition secondarily. I should have checked the dictionary. But perhaps my tree works anyway though since then we have ‘in a tree’ being an adverb modifying the adverb ‘up’? I think the question based analysis works here.

You had the opposite guess last time, but seemed more uncertain:

@Elliot

My first guess was “in a tree” tells us where “up” is rather than directly telling us where the hanging happens. It seems kinda ambiguous and contextual though. I can see it working both ways.

It seems we both thought it could answer the question of “where up?”

@ActiveMind

I think ‘up’ is answering the question “where did they hang it?”, and then we need to ask “up where did they they hang it?” “in a tree”.