Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 23

“O warm spicy land of my birth,” sang the Canary bird; “I will sing of thy dark-green bowers, of the calm bays where the pendent boughs kiss the surface of the water; I will sing of the rejoicing of all my brothers and sisters where the cactus grows in wanton luxuriance.”

Who acts: warm spicy land, pendent boughs, cactus · What happens: sing, kiss, grow, rejoice · To what, where: Canary bird, surface, wanton luxuriance, brothers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warm spicy land, pendent boughs, cactus), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 land	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	5 land	discourse
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 land	amod
4	spicy	spicy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 land	amod
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sang	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 birth	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 birth	nmod:poss
8	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 land	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 land	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 land	punct
11	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bird	det
13	Canary	canary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bird	amod
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sang	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 sing	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 sing	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 sing	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 sing	aux
19	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sang	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	25 bowers	case
21	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 bowers	nmod:poss
22	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 green	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 dark	punct
24	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bowers	amod
25	bowers	bower	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sing	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bays	punct
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 bays	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bays	det
29	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bays	amod
30	bays	bay	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bowers	appos
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 kiss	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 boughs	det
33	pendent	pendent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 boughs	amod
34	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 kiss	nsubj
35	kiss	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 bays	acl:relcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 surface	det
37	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 kiss	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 water	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 water	det
40	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 surface	nmod
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 sing	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 sing	nsubj
43	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 sing	aux
44	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sang	parataxis
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 rejoicing	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 rejoicing	det
47	rejoicing	rejoicing	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sing	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	51 brothers	case
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 brothers	det:predet
50	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 brothers	nmod:poss
51	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 rejoicing	nmod
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 sisters	cc
53	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 brothers	conj
54	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	57 grows	advmod
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 cactus	det
56	cactus	cactus	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 grows	nsubj
57	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 sisters	acl:relcl
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 luxuriance	case
59	wanton	wanton	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 luxuriance	compound
60	luxuriance	luxuriance	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 grows	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	44 sing	punct
62	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	warm spicy land of my birth	the Canary bird			tree rules
2	sing speech: express in a quote	future	warm spicy land of my birth = land			of thy green bowers	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	kiss in a quote	present	the pendent boughs	the surface of the water			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surface=Co-Agent
4	sing speech: express in a quote	future	warm spicy land of my birth = land			of the rejoicing of my brothers and sisters	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
5	grow in a quote	present	the cactus		wanton luxuriance		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in luxuriance=Location
6	rejoice in a quote			my brothers and sisters			nom rejoicing «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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