Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 91

On her bosom she had a real Elderflower, and in her yellow waving hair a wreath of the flowers; her eyes were so large and blue that it was a pleasure to look at them; she kissed the boy, and now they were of the same age and felt alike.

Who acts: Nanny, eyes · What happens: have, wave, be, look, kiss, feel · To what, where: real Elderflower, bosom, pleasure, boy

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 (Nanny, eyes), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 bosom	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bosom	nmod:poss
3	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Elderflower	det
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Elderflower	amod
8	Elderflower	elderflower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hair	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hair	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	15 hair	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hair	nmod:poss
13	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hair	amod
14	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 hair	amod
15	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 wreath	det
17	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hair	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 flowers	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 flowers	det
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 wreath	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 large	punct
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 eyes	nmod:poss
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 large	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 large	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 large	advmod
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 wreath	amod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 blue	cc
28	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 large	conj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 pleasure	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 pleasure	expl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 pleasure	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 pleasure	det
33	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 large	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 look	mark
35	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 pleasure	acl
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 look	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 kissed	punct
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 kissed	nsubj
40	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 large	parataxis
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 boy	det
42	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 kissed	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 age	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 age	cc
45	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	51 age	advmod
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 age	nsubj
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 age	cop
48	of	of	ADP	_	51 age	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 age	det
50	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 age	amod
51	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 kissed	obl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 felt	cc
53	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 kissed	conj
54	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 felt	xcomp
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Nanny	a real Elderflower	Nanny's bosom			tree rules
2	wave	gerund						vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Nanny's eyes				large property	tree rules
4	be		Nanny's eyes not said here					tree rules
5	is a	past	Nanny's eyes not said here	a pleasure				tree rules
6	look	to-infinitive	Nanny's eyes not said here				at flowers = flower	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
7	kiss	past	Nanny	the boy				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Co-Agent
8	is	past	eyes = eye			of the same age; now		tree rules
9	feel	past	Nanny not said here				alike property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
10	bosom		Nanny					nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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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