Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 142
There lay the Elder-blossom, as fresh as if it had been placed there but a short time before; and Remembrance nodded, and the old people, decked with crowns of gold, sat in the flush of the evening sun. They closed their eyes, and--and--!
Who acts: Remembrance, blossoms · What happens: lie, place, nod, deck, sit, close · To what, where: Elder blossom, Prayer, old people, flush, eyes, gold
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 (Remembrance, blossoms), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 lay | expl |
| 2 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 blossom | det |
| 4 | Elder | Elder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 blossom | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Elder | punct |
| 6 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fresh | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 fresh | advmod |
| 9 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lay | conj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 placed | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 placed | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 placed | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 placed | aux:pass |
| 15 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 fresh | advcl |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 placed | advmod |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 time | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lay | conj |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 2 lay | advmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 nodded | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 nodded | cc |
| 24 | Remembrance | Remembrance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 nodded | nsubj |
| 25 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lay | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 people | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 people | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 people | det |
| 29 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 people | amod |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 nodded | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 decked | punct |
| 32 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 people | acl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 crowns | case |
| 34 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 decked | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 gold | case |
| 36 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 crowns | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 sat | punct |
| 38 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 nodded | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 flush | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 flush | det |
| 41 | flush | flush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 sat | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 sun. | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 sun. | det |
| 44 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 sun. | compound |
| 45 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 flush | nmod |
| 46 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 closed | nsubj |
| 47 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 sun. | acl:relcl |
| 48 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 49 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 closed | obj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 and | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 lay | cc |
| 52 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 51 and | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 and | cc |
| 54 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 53 and | punct |
| 55 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the Elder blossom | there | before property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blossom=Theme | |||
| 2 | place | past · perfect · passive | Prayer | there | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | nod | past | Remembrance | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | deck | participle | the old people not said here | with crowns of gold | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with crown=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sit | past | Remembrance not said here | the flush of the evening sun. | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in flush=Location | ||||
| 6 | close | past | blossoms = blossom | blossoms's eyes | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 7 | crown | gold | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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