Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 6
“I flew about beneath the green palms and the blossoming almond-trees,” sang the Canary; “I flew around, with my brothers and sisters, over the beautiful flowers, and over the glassy lakes, where the bright water-plants nodded to me from below.
Who acts: Canary, Parrot, bright water plants · What happens: fly, blossom, sing, fly around, nod · To what, where: green palms, beautiful flowers, Parrot · 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 (Canary, Parrot, bright water plants), 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 | _ | 3 flew | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 5 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 8 palms | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palms | det |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 palms | amod |
| 8 | palms | palm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flew | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 trees | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trees | det |
| 11 | blossoming | blossom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 trees | amod |
| 12 | almond | almond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trees | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 almond | punct |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 palms | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
| 17 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Canary | det |
| 19 | Canary | Canary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sang | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 flew | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 flew | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 flew | nsubj |
| 23 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 24 | around | around | ADV | _ | 23 flew | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 brothers | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 brothers | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 28 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 flew | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 sisters | cc |
| 30 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 brothers | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 flowers | punct |
| 32 | over | over | ADP | _ | 35 flowers | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 flowers | det |
| 34 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 flowers | amod |
| 35 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 flew | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 lakes | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 lakes | cc |
| 38 | over | over | ADP | _ | 41 lakes | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 lakes | det |
| 40 | glassy | glassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 lakes | amod |
| 41 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 flew | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 nodded | punct |
| 43 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 49 nodded | advmod |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 plants | det |
| 45 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 plants | amod |
| 46 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 plants | compound |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 water | punct |
| 48 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 nodded | nsubj |
| 49 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 lakes | conj |
| 50 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 me | case |
| 51 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 nodded | obl |
| 52 | from | from | ADP | _ | 53 below | case |
| 53 | below | below | ADV | _ | 49 nodded | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly in a quote | past | the Canary = canary | the green palms and the blossoming almond trees | about property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent beneath palm=Location | |||
| 2 | blossom in a quote | gerund | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | the Canary | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 4 | fly around in a quote | past | Parrot | the beautiful flowers | with my brothers and sisters; over the glassy lakes; around property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over flower=Location | |||
| 5 | nod in a quote | past | the bright water plants | Parrot | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient |
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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