Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 118

In the fields the corn was waving like the sea; in the ditches red and yellow flowers were growing; while wild-drone flowers, and blooming convolvuluses were creeping in the hedges; and towards evening the moon rose round and large, and the haycocks in the meadows smelt so sweetly.

Who acts: corn, yellow flowers, blooming, moon, haycocks · What happens: wave, grow, bloom, creep, rise, smelt · To what, where: convolvuluses, hedges

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corn, yellow flowers, blooming, moon), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 fields	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fields	det
3	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 waving	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 corn	det
5	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waving	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 waving	aux
7	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 waving	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 ditches	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 ditches	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ditches	det
14	ditches	ditch	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 waving	obl
15	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ditches	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 growing	cc
17	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flowers	amod
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 growing	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 growing	aux
20	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 red	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 flowers	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 flowers	mark
23	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 drone	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 wild	punct
25	drone	drone	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flowers	compound
26	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ditches	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 creeping	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 creeping	cc
29	blooming	bloom	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 creeping	csubj
30	convolvuluses	convolvulus	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 blooming	obj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 creeping	aux
32	creeping	creep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 waving	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 hedges	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hedges	det
35	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 creeping	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 rose	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 rose	cc
38	towards	towards	ADP	_	39 evening	case
39	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 rose	obl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 moon	det
41	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 rose	nsubj
42	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 creeping	parataxis
43	round	round	ADV	_	42 rose	advmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 large	cc
45	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 round	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 smelt	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 smelt	cc
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 haycocks	det
49	haycocks	haycock	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 smelt	nsubj
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 meadows	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 meadows	det
52	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 haycocks	nmod
53	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 rose	conj
54	so	so	ADV	_	55 sweetly	advmod
55	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	53 smelt	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 waving	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past · progressive	the corn				like the sea; in the ditches and drone flowers; in the fields	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in field=Theme
2	grow	past · progressive	yellow flowers					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bloom	gerund		convolvuluses				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location convolvulus=Theme
4	creep	past · progressive	blooming		the hedges			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hedge=Trajectory
5	rise	past	the moon			evening	round property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	smelt	present	the haycocks in the meadows				sweetly property	tree rules

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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