Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 34
The old remembrances awake, the faded colors glow with a fresh lustre, and story and song pour us a blessed draught which lifts up our minds and our thoughts, so that the evening becomes as a Christmas festival.
Who acts: old remembrances, story, blessed draught, evening, our · What happens: fade, glow, pour, lift up, become, mind · To what, where: us, minds
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 (old remembrances, story, blessed draught, evening), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 remembrances | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 remembrances | amod |
| 3 | remembrances | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 glow | nsubj |
| 4 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 remembrances | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 remembrances | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 colors | det |
| 7 | faded | fade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 colors | amod |
| 8 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 glow | nsubj |
| 9 | glow | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 lustre | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lustre | det |
| 12 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lustre | amod |
| 13 | lustre | lustre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 glow | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pour | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pour | cc |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pour | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 song | cc |
| 18 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 story | conj |
| 19 | pour | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 glow | advcl |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 pour | obj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 draught | det |
| 22 | blessed | blessed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 draught | amod |
| 23 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pour | obj |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 lifts | nsubj |
| 25 | lifts | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 draught | acl:relcl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 lifts | compound:prt |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 minds | nmod:poss |
| 28 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 lifts | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 thoughts | cc |
| 30 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 31 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 minds | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 becomes | punct |
| 33 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 37 becomes | mark |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 so | fixed |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 evening | det |
| 36 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 becomes | nsubj |
| 37 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 pour | conj |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 festival | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 festival | det |
| 40 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 festival | compound |
| 41 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 becomes | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 glow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fade | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | glow | present | the old remembrances | with a fresh lustre | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with lustre=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pour | present | story and song | us | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent we=Theme draught=Destination | ||||
| 4 | lift up | present | a blessed draught | our minds and our thoughts | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Theme | ||||
| 5 | become | present | the evening | as a Christmas festival | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | mind | our | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | think | our | nom thought «cognition 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: «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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