Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 2

The earth wears a snowy garment, and looks like marble hewn out of the rock; the air is bright and clear; the wind is sharp as a well-tempered sword, and the trees stand like branches of white coral or blooming almond twigs, and here it is keen as on the lofty Alps.

Who acts: earth, marble, air, wind, trees · What happens: wear, look, hewn out, be, temper, stand · To what, where: snowy garment, rock, almond twigs

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth, marble, air, wind), 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 earth	det
2	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wears	nsubj
3	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 garment	det
5	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 garment	amod
6	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wears	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 looks	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 looks	cc
9	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wears	conj
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 marble	case
11	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looks	obl
12	hewn	hewn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 marble	acl
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 rock	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 rock	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rock	det
16	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hewn	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 bright	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 air	det
19	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bright	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 bright	cop
21	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wears	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 clear	cc
23	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bright	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 sharp	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wind	det
26	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sharp	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 sharp	cop
28	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wears	parataxis
29	as	as	ADP	_	34 sword	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 sword	det
31	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 tempered	advmod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 well	punct
33	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 sword	amod
34	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sharp	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 stand	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 stand	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 trees	det
38	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 stand	nsubj
39	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 sharp	advcl
40	like	like	ADP	_	41 branches	case
41	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 stand	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 coral	case
43	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 coral	amod
44	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 branches	nmod
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 blooming	cc
46	blooming	bloom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 coral	conj
47	almond	almond	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 twigs	compound
48	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 blooming	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 keen	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 keen	cc
51	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	54 keen	advmod
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 keen	nsubj
53	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 keen	cop
54	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sharp	conj
55	as	as	ADP	_	59 Alps	case
56	on	on	ADP	_	59 Alps	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 Alps	det
58	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 Alps	amod
59	Alps	Alp	PROPN	Number=Plur	54 keen	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wear	present	the earth	a snowy garment			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent garment=Source
2	look	present	the earth not said here			like marble	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	hewn out	participle	marble not said here	the rock			tree rules
4	is	present	the air			bright property	tree rules
5	be		the air not said here				tree rules
6	is	present	the wind			as a tempered sword; sharp property	tree rules
7	temper	participle				well property	tree rules
8	stand	present	the trees			like branches of white coral	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	bloom	gerund	the trees not said here	almond twigs			vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location twig=Theme
10	is	present	wind		here	as the lofty Alps; keen property	tree rules

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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