Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twentieth Evening, sentence 17

This evening they sit beneath the lofty palm trees, where the crane flutters round them with its long wings, and the pelican watches them from the branches of the mimosa.

Who acts: storms, crane, pelican · What happens: sit, flutter, watch · To what, where: lofty palm trees, storms, branches

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twentieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storms, crane, pelican), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl:unmarked
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sit	nsubj
4	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	9 trees	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
7	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trees	amod
8	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trees	compound
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sit	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flutters	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 flutters	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 crane	det
13	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flutters	nsubj
14	flutters	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	conj
15	round	round	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 flutters	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 wings	case
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wings	nmod:poss
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wings	amod
20	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 flutters	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 watches	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 watches	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pelican	det
24	pelican	pelican	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 watches	nsubj
25	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 watches	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 branches	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 branches	det
29	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 watches	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 mimosa	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 mimosa	det
32	mimosa	mimosa	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 branches	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	storms = storm		the lofty palm trees	evening		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath tree=Location
2	flutter	present	the crane				round storms = storm; with crane's long wings	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	watch	present	the pelican	storms = storm	the branches of the mimosa			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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