Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 72

It related the mythus of its birth, told of the power of the sun-light that spread out its delicate leaves, and forced them to impregnate the air with their incense--and then he thought of the manifold struggles of life, which in like manner awaken the budding flowers of feeling in our bosom.

Who acts: number, sun light, leaves, air, life, our · What happens: relate, tell, spread out, force, impregnate, think · To what, where: mythus, delicate leaves, leaves, air, manifold struggles · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (number, sun light, leaves, air), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 related	nsubj
2	related	relate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mythus	det
4	mythus	mythus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 related	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 birth	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 birth	nmod:poss
7	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mythus	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 mythus	acl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 power	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 power	det
12	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 light	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 light	det
15	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 light	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 sun	punct
17	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 power	nmod
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 spread	nsubj
19	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 light	acl:relcl
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 spread	compound:prt
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 leaves	nmod:poss
22	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 leaves	amod
23	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 spread	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 forced	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 forced	cc
26	forced	force	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 related	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 forced	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 impregnate	mark
29	impregnate	impregnate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 forced	xcomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 air	det
31	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 impregnate	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 incense	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 incense	nmod:poss
34	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 impregnate	obl
35	--	--	PUNCT	_	39 thought	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 thought	cc
37	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 thought	advmod
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 thought	nsubj
39	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 related	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 struggles	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 struggles	det
42	manifold	manifold	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 struggles	compound
43	struggles	struggle	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 thought	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 life	case
45	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 struggles	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 awaken	punct
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 awaken	obj
48	in	in	ADV	_	47 which	advmod
49	like	like	ADP	_	50 manner	case
50	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 awaken	obl
51	awaken	awaken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 struggles	parataxis
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 flowers	det
53	budding	budding	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 flowers	compound
54	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 awaken	obj
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 feeling	case
56	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 flowers	nmod
57	in	in	ADP	_	59 bosom	case
58	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 bosom	nmod:poss
59	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 feeling	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 related	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	relate	past	number	the mythus of number's birth			vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mythus=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	participle		the mythus of number's birth not said here		of the power of the sun light	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	spread out	past	the sun light	number's delicate leaves			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme
4	force	past	number not said here	leaves = leaf			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	impregnate	to-infinitive	leaves = leaf not said here	the air		with leaves's incense	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent air=Destination with incense=Theme
6	think speech: other	past	air	the manifold struggles of life	then		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot struggle=Theme
7	awaken	present		the manifold struggles of life		like manner	tree rules
8	struggle		life				nom struggle «act intransitive»: of=agent
9	bosom		our				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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