Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 80
And the Elderbush sent forth a strong odour in the sun, that was just about to set, and shone right in the old people's faces.
Who acts: Elderbush · What happens: send, be, shine · To what, where: strong odour, sun, faces
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 (Elderbush), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sent | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Elderbush | det |
| 3 | Elderbush | Elderbush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 sent | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 odour | det |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 odour | amod |
| 8 | odour | odour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sun | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sun | det |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 odour | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 set | obl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 set | cop |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 about | advmod |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 set | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 set | mark |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 odour | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 shone | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 shone | cc |
| 21 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sent | conj |
| 22 | right | right | ADV | _ | 28 faces | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 faces | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 people | det |
| 25 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 people | amod |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 faces | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 people | case |
| 28 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 shone | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the Elderbush | a strong odour | the sun | forth property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent odour=Theme in sun=Destination | ||
| 2 | is | past | the Elderbush not said here | that obl; about, set property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shine | participle | the Elderbush not said here | the old people's faces | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in face=Location |
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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