Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 15

The books travelled all over the world, and some of them came into the hands of the emperor; and he sat in his golden chair, and, as he read, he nodded his approval every moment, for it pleased him to find such a beautiful description of his city, his palace, and his gardens.

Who acts: books, some, poetry · What happens: travel, come, sit, read, nod, find · To what, where: world, hands, gardens, golden chair, approval, beautiful description

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 (books, some, poetry), 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 books	det
2	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 travelled	nsubj
3	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	7 world	advmod
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 world	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 world	det
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 travelled	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 came	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 some	nmod
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 travelled	conj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 hands	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hands	det
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 came	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 emperor	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 emperor	det
19	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hands	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 sat	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sat	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sat	nsubj
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 travelled	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 chair	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 chair	nmod:poss
26	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 chair	amod
27	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sat	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 nodded	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 nodded	cc
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 and	punct
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 read	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 read	nsubj
33	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 nodded	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 read	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 nodded	nsubj
36	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sat	conj
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 approval	nmod:poss
38	approval	approval	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 nodded	obj
39	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	40 moment	det
40	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 nodded	obl:unmarked
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 pleased	punct
42	for	for	ADP	_	44 pleased	case
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 pleased	nsubj
44	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 nodded	conj
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 pleased	nsubj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 find	mark
47	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 pleased	advcl
48	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	51 description	det:predet
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 description	det
50	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 description	amod
51	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 find	obj
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 city	case
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 city	nmod:poss
54	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 description	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 palace	punct
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 palace	nmod:poss
57	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 description	conj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 gardens	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 gardens	cc
60	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 gardens	nmod:poss
61	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sat	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	travel	past	the books		the world		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over world=Trajectory
2	come	past	some		the hands of the emperor		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hand=Initial_Location
3	sit	past	poetry	poetry's gardens	poetry's golden chair		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location
4	read	past	poetry				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	nod	past	poetry	poetry's approval		moment	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent approval=Patient
6	find	to-infinitive	poetry not said here	such beautiful description of poetry's city and poetry's palace			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent description=Topic
7	approve		poetry				nom approval «act transitive»: poss=agent
8	describe			poetry's city			nom description «communication 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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