Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 140

She sung of the quiet churchyard, where the white roses grow, where the elder-tree wafts its perfume on the breeze, and the fresh, sweet grass is moistened by the mourners' tears.

Who acts: nightingale, white roses, elder tree, churchyard · What happens: sing, grow, waft, moisten, perfume · To what, where: perfume, breeze, fresh sweet grass

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nightingale, white roses, elder tree, churchyard), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sung	nsubj
2	sung	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 churchyard	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 churchyard	det
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 churchyard	amod
6	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sung	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grow	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 grow	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 roses	det
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 roses	amod
11	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grow	nsubj
12	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sung	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wafts	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 wafts	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tree	det
16	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tree	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 elder	punct
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wafts	nsubj
19	wafts	waft	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 grow	conj
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 perfume	nmod:poss
21	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wafts	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 breeze	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 breeze	det
24	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wafts	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 moistened	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 moistened	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 grass	det
28	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 grass	amod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fresh	punct
30	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 grass	amod
31	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 moistened	nsubj:pass
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 moistened	aux:pass
33	moistened	moisten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sung	conj
34	by	by	ADP	_	38 tears	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 mourners	det
36	mourners	mourner	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 tears	nmod:poss
37	'	's	PART	_	36 mourners	case
38	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 moistened	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	nightingale			of the quiet churchyard	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	grow	present	the white roses				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	waft	present	the elder tree	churchyard's perfume	the breeze		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location perfume=Theme
4	moisten	present · passive		the fresh sweet grass		by the mourners's tears	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
5	perfume		churchyard				nom perfume «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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