Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 8
The sun shone among the delicate leaves; everything breathed forth the loveliest fragrance, and all felt as we do when we are filled with joy at the thought of our happiness.
Who acts: sun, everything, we · What happens: shine, breathe, feel, do, fill, think · To what, where: delicate leaves, loveliest fragrance, we, thought, happiness
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 (sun, everything, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shone | nsubj |
| 3 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 leaves | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 leaves | det |
| 6 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 leaves | amod |
| 7 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shone | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 breathed | punct |
| 9 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 breathed | nsubj |
| 10 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shone | parataxis |
| 11 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 10 breathed | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fragrance | det |
| 13 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 fragrance | amod |
| 14 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breathed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 felt | cc |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 felt | advmod |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 breathed | conj |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 do | nsubj |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 felt | advcl |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 filled | advmod |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 filled | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 filled | aux:pass |
| 25 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 do | advcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 joy | case |
| 27 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 filled | obl |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 thought | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 thought | det |
| 30 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 filled | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 happiness | case |
| 32 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 33 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 thought | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the sun | the delicate leaves | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among leaf=Location | ||||
| 2 | breathe | past | everything | the loveliest fragrance | forth property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragrance=Theme | |||
| 3 | feel | past | everything not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | present | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fill | present · passive | we | the thought of our happiness | with joy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with joy=Instrument | |||
| 6 | think | our happiness | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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