Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 58
More grand and venerable to him seemed the old oaks around the proud baronial castle, where the creeping plants hung over the stony summits of the rocks; sweeter was the perfume there of the apple-blossom than in all the land of Denmark.
Who acts: grand, creeping plants · What happens: seem, creep, hang, be · To what, where: old oaks, proud baronial castle, stony summits, sweeter perfume
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 (grand, creeping plants), 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 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 seemed | advmod |
| 2 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 venerable | cc |
| 4 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grand | conj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 venerable | obl |
| 7 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 oaks | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 oaks | amod |
| 10 | oaks | oak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 seemed | obj |
| 11 | around | around | ADP | _ | 15 castle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 castle | det |
| 13 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 castle | amod |
| 14 | baronial | baronial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 castle | amod |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 oaks | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hung | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 hung | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 plants | det |
| 19 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 plants | amod |
| 20 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hung | nsubj |
| 21 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 castle | conj |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 summits | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 summits | det |
| 24 | stony | stony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 summits | amod |
| 25 | summits | summit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hung | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 rocks | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 rocks | det |
| 28 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 summits | nmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 perfume | punct |
| 30 | sweeter | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 perfume | amod |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 perfume | cop |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 perfume | det |
| 33 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seemed | obl |
| 34 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 perfume | advmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 blossom | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 blossom | det |
| 37 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 blossom | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 apple | punct |
| 39 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 perfume | nmod |
| 40 | than | than | ADP | _ | 44 land | case |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 land | case |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 land | det:predet |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 land | det |
| 44 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 blossom | nmod |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 Denmark | case |
| 46 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 land | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | grand | the old oaks | the proud baronial castle | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme oak=Attribute | |||
| 2 | creep | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | hang | past | the creeping plants | the stony summits of the rocks | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over summit=Location | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the sweeter perfume | there | of the apple blossom than all land of Denmark | tree rules |
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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