Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 202

The fragrant leaves of the tree fell upon him and cooled his burning brow; upon his parched lips they seemed like refreshing bread and wine; and as they rested on his breast, a peaceful calm stole over him, and he felt inclined to sleep. "

Who acts: fragrant leaves, leaves, peaceful calm, calm · What happens: fall, cool, burn, parch, seem, refresh · To what, where: burning brow, bread, breast

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fragrant leaves, leaves, peaceful calm, calm), 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	3 leaves	det
2	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 leaves	amod
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fell	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaves	nmod
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fell	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cooled	cc
11	cooled	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 brow	nmod:poss
13	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 brow	amod
14	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cooled	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 seemed	punct
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 lips	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 lips	nmod:poss
18	parched	parch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 lips	amod
19	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 seemed	obl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 seemed	nsubj
21	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	conj
22	like	like	SCONJ	_	23 refreshing	mark
23	refreshing	refresh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 seemed	xcomp
24	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 refreshing	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wine	cc
26	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bread	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 rested	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 rested	cc
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 rested	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 rested	nsubj
31	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	parataxis
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 breast	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 breast	nmod:poss
34	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rested	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 stole	punct
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 calm	det
37	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 calm	amod
38	calm	calm	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stole	nsubj
39	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 rested	conj
40	over	over	ADP	_	41 him	case
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 stole	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 felt	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 felt	cc
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 felt	nsubj
45	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	parataxis
46	inclined	inclined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 felt	xcomp
47	to	to	PART	_	48 sleep	mark
48	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 inclined	xcomp
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	45 felt	punct
50	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the fragrant leaves of the tree			upon tree	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
2	cool	past	the fragrant leaves of the tree not said here	tree's burning brow			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brow=Patient
3	burn	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	parch	participle					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	seem	past	leaves = leaf			upon tree's parched lips	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	refresh	gerund	leaves = leaf not said here	bread and wine			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bread=Experiencer
7	rest	past	leaves = leaf		tree's breast		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on breast=Location
8	steal	past	a peaceful calm			over tree	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over he=Location
9	feel	past	calm			inclined property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
10	sleep	to-infinitive	calm not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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