Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 133

The little maiden, with the blue eyes, and with Elder-blossoms in her hair, sat in the tree, nodded to both of them, and said, “To-day is the fiftieth anniversary!”

What happens: sit, nod, say, be · To what, where: tree, both, fiftieth anniversary · 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: 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	3 maiden	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 maiden	amod
3	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eyes	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 eyes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eyes	det
7	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eyes	amod
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 maiden	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sat	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sat	cc
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 blossoms	case
12	Elder	Elder	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 blossoms	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Elder	punct
14	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sat	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 hair	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hair	nmod:poss
17	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blossoms	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 blossoms	punct
19	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 maiden	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 tree	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tree	det
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sat	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 nodded	punct
24	nodded	nod	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 sat	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 both	case
26	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	24 nodded	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 both	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 maiden	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 anniversary	punct
33	“	"	PUNCT	_	40 anniversary	punct
34	To	to	ADP	_	36 day	case
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 To	punct
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 anniversary	obl
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 anniversary	cop
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 anniversary	det
39	fiftieth	fiftieth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 anniversary	amod
40	anniversary	anniversary	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	ccomp
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	40 anniversary	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	40 anniversary	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past			the tree		with Elder blossoms in mother's hair	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location
2	nod	participle		both				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to both=Recipient
3	say speech: express	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present	the fiftieth anniversary			day		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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