Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 7

Those who travelled beyond its limits knew that there was a noble forest, with lofty trees, sloping down to the deep blue sea, and the great ships sailed under the shadow of its branches.

Who acts: Those, limits, noble forest, lofty trees, great ships · What happens: travel, know, be, slope down, sail, shadow · To what, where: shadow, branches · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Those, limits, noble forest, lofty trees), 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	Those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 travelled	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 travelled	nsubj
3	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	7 knew	mark
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 limits	nmod:poss
6	limits	limit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 knew	nsubj
7	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 travelled	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 was	mark
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 knew	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 forest	det
12	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 forest	amod
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 was	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 trees	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 trees	case
16	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 trees	amod
17	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 forest	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sloping	punct
19	sloping	slope	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 trees	acl
20	down	down	ADV	_	19 sloping	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	25 sea	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sea	det
23	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sea	amod
24	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sea	amod
25	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sloping	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sailed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sailed	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ships	det
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ships	amod
30	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sailed	nsubj
31	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 travelled	conj
32	under	under	ADP	_	34 shadow	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 shadow	det
34	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sailed	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 branches	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 branches	nmod:poss
37	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 shadow	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	travel	past	Those				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	know	past	garden's limits				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	be	past	a noble forest with lofty trees		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	slope down	gerund	lofty trees not said here			to the deep blue sea; down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sail	past	the great ships		the shadow of garden's branches		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
6	shadow			garden's branches			nom shadow «state 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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