Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 61

They sat down, read their hymn-book, and held each other by the hand, while the sun shone down upon the fresh roses and upon them.

Who acts: birds, sun · What happens: sit down, read, hold, shine down · To what, where: hymn book, each, fresh 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 (birds, sun), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 read	punct
5	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sat	advcl
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 book	nmod:poss
7	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 book	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 hymn	punct
9	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 held	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 held	cc
12	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
13	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	12 held	obj
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 each	fixed
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 hand	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hand	det
17	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 held	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 shone	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 shone	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sun	det
21	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shone	nsubj
22	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 shone	advmod
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 roses	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 roses	det
26	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 roses	amod
27	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 shone	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 them	cc
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 roses	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	birds = bird				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	read	infinitive	birds = bird not said here	birds's hymn book			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic
3	hold	past	birds = bird not said here	each		by the hand	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme by hand=Location
4	shine down	past	the sun		the fresh roses	down property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon rose=Location

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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