Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 46

In the evening, when the gnats were playing about in the warm air and in the red clouds, the nightingale came and sang to the roses that the beautiful was like sunshine to the world, and that the beautiful lived for ever.

Who acts: gnats, nightingale, that · What happens: play about, come, sing, be, live · To what, where: warm air, roses

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gnats, nightingale, that), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 playing	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 playing	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gnats	det
7	gnats	gnat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 playing	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 playing	aux
9	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 evening	acl
10	about	about	ADV	_	9 playing	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 air	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 air	det
13	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 air	amod
14	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 playing	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 clouds	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 clouds	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 clouds	det
18	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 clouds	amod
19	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 air	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 nightingale	det
22	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sang	cc
25	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 came	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 roses	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 roses	det
28	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sang	obl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 beautiful	nsubj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 beautiful	det
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 roses	amod
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 beautiful	cop
33	like	like	ADP	_	34 sunshine	case
34	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 was	nsubj
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 world	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 world	det
37	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sunshine	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 lived	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 lived	cc
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 beautiful	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 beautiful	det
42	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 lived	advcl
43	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 came	conj
44	for	for	ADP	_	45 ever	case
45	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	43 lived	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play about	past · progressive	the gnats		the warm air and the red clouds		about property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	the nightingale			evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sing speech: express	past	the nightingale not said here	the roses				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to rose=Recipient
4	is	past	that				beautiful property	tree rules
5	live	past	the nightingale not said here					vn exist-47.1-1 «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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