Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 129

Yes, it was delightful; and the little maiden showed the boy everything; and the Elder Tree still was fragrant, and the red flag, with the white cross, was still waving: the flag under which the old seaman in the New Booths had sailed.

Who acts: violin, little maiden, Elder Tree, red flag · What happens: be, show, wave, sail · To what, where: everything, boy, old seaman, flag

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 (violin, little maiden, Elder Tree, red flag), 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	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 delightful	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 delightful	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delightful	cop
5	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 showed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 showed	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 maiden	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 maiden	amod
10	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 showed	nsubj
11	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 delightful	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 showed	obj
14	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 showed	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 fragrant	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fragrant	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Tree	det
18	Elder	Elder	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Tree	compound
19	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 fragrant	nsubj
20	still	still	ADV	_	22 fragrant	advmod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fragrant	cop
22	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 delightful	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 waving	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 waving	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 flag	det
26	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 flag	amod
27	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 waving	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cross	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 cross	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 cross	det
31	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cross	amod
32	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flag	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 flag	punct
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 waving	aux
35	still	still	ADV	_	36 waving	advmod
36	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 fragrant	advcl
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 flag	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 flag	det
39	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 delightful	conj
40	under	under	ADP	_	41 which	case
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 sailed	obl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 seaman	det
43	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 seaman	amod
44	seaman	seaman	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 sailed	nsubj:pass
45	in	in	ADP	_	48 Booths	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Booths	det
47	New	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 Booths	amod
48	Booths	Booth	PROPN	Number=Plur	44 seaman	nmod
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 sailed	aux
50	sailed	sail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 flag	acl:relcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 delightful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	violin					delightful property	tree rules
2	show	past	the little maiden	everything	the boy				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient everything=Topic
3	is	past	the Elder Tree				still	fragrant property	tree rules
4	wave	past · progressive	the red flag and the white cross				still		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sail	past · perfect · passive		the old seaman in the New Booths		the flag			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Trajectory

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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