Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 123

The sea was dark blue, covered with ships full of white sails; and in the barn old women, maidens, and children were sitting picking hops into a large cask; the young sang songs, but the old told fairy tales of mountain-sprites and soothsayers.

Who acts: sea, children, picking, young, mountain sprites · What happens: be, cover, sit, hop, sing, tell · To what, where: barn, large cask, songs · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sea, children, picking, young), 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 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blue	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blue	cop
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blue	amod
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 covered	punct
7	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 blue	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 ships	case
9	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 covered	obl
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ships	amod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 sails	case
12	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sails	amod
13	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 full	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 barn	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 barn	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 barn	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 barn	det
18	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blue	conj
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 women	amod
20	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 barn	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 maidens	punct
22	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 women	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sitting	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sitting	cc
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sitting	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sitting	aux
27	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 barn	acl
28	picking	picking	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hops	nsubj
29	hops	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 sitting	ccomp
30	into	into	ADP	_	33 cask	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 cask	det
32	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 cask	amod
33	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hops	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 sang	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 young	det
36	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 sang	nsubj
37	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blue	parataxis
38	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 sang	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 tales	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 tales	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 tales	det
42	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 tales	amod
43	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 tales	amod
44	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 tales	compound
45	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 sang	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	49 sprites	case
47	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 sprites	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 mountain	punct
49	sprites	sprite	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 tales	nmod
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 soothsayers	cc
51	soothsayers	soothsayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 sprites	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 blue	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sea			blue property	tree rules
2	cover	participle	the sea not said here			with ships	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ship=Theme
3	sit	past · progressive	children	the barn and old women and maidens not said here			tree rules
4	hop	present	picking		a large cask		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cask=Destination
5	sing speech: express	past	the young	songs		the old told fairy tales of mountain sprites and soothsayers obl	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	participle					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	tell		mountain sprites and soothsayers				nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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