Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 73
But God's warm sun streamed through the open window; lovely roses nodded from the wooden flower-boxes on the roof, and two sky-blue birds sang rejoicingly, while the sick mother implored God's richest blessings on her pious daughter.
Who acts: warm sun, two blue birds, sick mother, God · What happens: stream, nod, sing, implore, bless · To what, where: open window, lovely roses, wooden flower boxes, richest blessings
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warm sun, two blue birds, sick mother, God), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 streamed | cc |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sun | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 God | case |
| 4 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sun | amod |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 streamed | nsubj |
| 6 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 window | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 window | det |
| 9 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 window | amod |
| 10 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 streamed | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 roses | punct |
| 12 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 roses | amod |
| 13 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 streamed | parataxis |
| 14 | nodded | nod | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 roses | acl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 boxes | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boxes | det |
| 17 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 boxes | amod |
| 18 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 boxes | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 flower | punct |
| 20 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 nodded | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 roof | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 roof | det |
| 23 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 boxes | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sang | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sang | cc |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 birds | nummod |
| 27 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 blue | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 sky | punct |
| 29 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 birds | amod |
| 30 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 sang | nsubj |
| 31 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 roses | parataxis |
| 32 | rejoicingly | rejoicingly | ADV | _ | 31 sang | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 implored | punct |
| 34 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 38 implored | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 mother | det |
| 36 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 mother | amod |
| 37 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 implored | nsubj |
| 38 | implored | implore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 sang | conj |
| 39 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 blessings | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 God | case |
| 41 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 42 blessings | amod |
| 42 | blessings | blessing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 implored | obj |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 daughter | case |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 45 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 daughter | amod |
| 46 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 implored | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 streamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stream | participle | God's warm sun | the open window | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location | ||||
| 2 | nod | participle | lovely roses not said here | the wooden flower boxes on the roof | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | two blue birds | rejoicingly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 4 | implore | past | the sick mother | God's richest blessings | on mother's pious daughter | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Recipient | |||
| 5 | bless | God | nom blessing «act 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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