Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 9

The grass grows rank among the broad flagstones, and in the morning twilight thousands of tame pigeons flutter around the solitary lofty tower.

Who acts: grass, twilight thousands · What happens: grow, flutter · To what, where: rank, solitary lofty tower

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grass, twilight thousands), 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 grass	det
2	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	nsubj
3	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	obj
5	among	among	ADP	_	8 flagstones	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 flagstones	det
7	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 flagstones	amod
8	flagstones	flagstone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grows	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 flutter	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 flutter	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 morning	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 morning	det
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flutter	obl
14	twilight	twilight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thousands	amod
15	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 flutter	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 pigeons	case
17	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pigeons	amod
18	pigeons	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 thousands	nmod
19	flutter	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grows	conj
20	around	around	ADP	_	24 tower	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tower	det
22	solitary	solitary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tower	amod
23	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tower	amod
24	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flutter	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	the grass	rank				among the broad flagstones	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rank=Theme
2	flutter	present	twilight thousands of tame pigeons			the solitary lofty tower	morning		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around tower=Location

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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