Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 32
The air is so unusually clear, the clouds sail on so buoyantly, and from the green herbage a fragrance is exhaled that fills me with delight.
Who acts: air, clouds, that · What happens: be, sail, exhale, fill · To what, where: fragrance, green herbage, me
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, clouds, that), 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 | 2 air | det |
| 2 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clear | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 clear | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 clear | advmod |
| 5 | unusually | unusually | ADV | _ | 6 clear | advmod |
| 6 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sail | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 clouds | det |
| 9 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sail | nsubj |
| 10 | sail | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 clear | parataxis |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 buoyantly | case |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 buoyantly | advmod |
| 13 | buoyantly | buoyantly | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 sail | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 exhaled | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 exhaled | cc |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 herbage | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 herbage | det |
| 18 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 herbage | amod |
| 19 | herbage | herbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 exhaled | obl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fragrance | det |
| 21 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 exhaled | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 exhaled | aux:pass |
| 23 | exhaled | exhale | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sail | conj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 fills | nsubj |
| 25 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 exhaled | ccomp |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 fills | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 delight | case |
| 28 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fills | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 clear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the air | clear, unusually property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sail | present | the clouds | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | exhale | present · passive | a fragrance | the green herbage | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fill | present | that | me | with delight | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient with delight=Instrument |
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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