Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 192

The court adjoined a garden, and all was in flower; the roses hung so fresh and odorous over the balustrade, the lindens were in blossom, the Swallows flew by, and said, “Quirre-vit!

Who acts: court, roses, lindens, Swallows · What happens: adjoin, be, hang, fly by, say · To what, where: garden, flower, blossom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (court, roses, lindens, Swallows), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 court	det
2	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 adjoined	nsubj
3	adjoined	adjoin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 garden	det
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 adjoined	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flower	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 flower	cc
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 flower	det
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 flower	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 flower	case
11	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 adjoined	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 hung	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 roses	det
14	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hung	nsubj
15	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 adjoined	parataxis
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 fresh	advmod
17	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hung	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 odorous	cc
19	odorous	odorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fresh	conj
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 balustrade	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 balustrade	det
22	balustrade	balustrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fresh	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 blossom	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lindens	det
25	lindens	linden	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 blossom	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 blossom	cop
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 blossom	case
28	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hung	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 flew	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Swallows	det
31	Swallows	Swallow	PROPN	Number=Plur	32 flew	nsubj
32	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 blossom	conj
33	by	by	ADP	_	32 flew	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 said	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 said	cc
36	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hung	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 vit	punct
38	“	"	PUNCT	_	41 vit	punct
39	Quirre	Quirre	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 vit	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 Quirre	punct
41	vit	vit	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 said	ccomp
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 adjoined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	adjoin	past	the court	a garden			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme garden=Co-Theme
2	is	past			all flower		tree rules
3	hang	past	the roses			fresh property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the lindens		blossom		tree rules
5	fly by	past	the Swallows				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	the roses not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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