Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 52

There are gaps in the snowy mountains, the sun shines into the clefts; spring is coming, the birds are returning, and new races are coming with the same home sounds in their hearts.

Who acts: gaps, sun, spring, birds, new races · What happens: be, shine, come, return · To what, where: snowy mountains, clefts

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 (gaps, sun, spring, birds), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gaps	gap	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 mountains	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountains	det
6	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mountains	amod
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gaps	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shines	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sun	det
10	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shines	nsubj
11	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mountains	acl:relcl
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 clefts	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 clefts	det
14	clefts	cleft	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shines	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 coming	punct
16	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 coming	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 coming	aux
18	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 are	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 returning	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 birds	det
21	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 returning	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 returning	aux
23	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 coming	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 coming	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 coming	cc
26	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 races	amod
27	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 coming	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 coming	aux
29	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 coming	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	34 sounds	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sounds	det
32	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sounds	amod
33	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sounds	compound
34	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 coming	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 hearts	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 hearts	nmod:poss
37	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 sounds	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	gaps in the snowy mountains		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shine	present	the sun	the snowy mountains not said here	the clefts		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme
3	come	present · progressive	spring				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	return	present · progressive	the birds				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	present · progressive	new races			with the same home sounds in races's hearts	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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