Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 17

Preben and Martha were a fine old couple, and when they both sat on the bench, at the top of the steep stone steps, in front of their house, with the branches of the linden-tree waving above them, and nodded in a gentle, friendly way to passers by, it really made one feel quite happy.

Who acts: Preben, people, linden tree, way · What happens: be, sit, wave, nod, make · To what, where: fine old couple, bench, one feel

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Preben, people, linden tree, way), 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	Preben	Preben	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 couple	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Martha	cc
3	Martha	Martha	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Preben	conj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 couple	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 couple	det
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 couple	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 couple	amod
8	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 made	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 made	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 sat	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sat	nsubj
13	both	both	ADV	_	14 sat	advmod
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 made	advcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 bench	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bench	det
17	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 top	punct
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 top	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 top	det
21	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	26 steps	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 steps	det
24	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 steps	amod
25	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 steps	compound
26	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 top	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 front	punct
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 front	case
29	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 house	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 house	nmod:poss
32	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 front	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 branches	punct
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 branches	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 branches	det
36	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sat	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	41 tree	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 tree	det
39	linden	linden	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 tree	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 linden	punct
41	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 branches	nmod
42	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 tree	acl
43	above	above	ADP	_	44 them	case
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 waving	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 nodded	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 nodded	cc
47	nodded	nod	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 sat	conj
48	in	in	ADP	_	53 way	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 way	det
50	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 way	amod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 gentle	punct
52	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 way	amod
53	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 nodded	obl
54	to	to	ADP	_	55 passers	case
55	passers	passer	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 way	nmod
56	by	by	ADP	_	47 nodded	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 made	nsubj
59	really	really	ADV	_	60 made	advmod
60	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 couple	advcl
61	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	62 feel	nummod
62	feel	feel	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 made	obj
63	quite	quite	ADV	_	64 happy	advmod
64	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 feel	amod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 couple	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Preben and Martha	a fine old couple			tree rules
2	sit	past	people		the bench	at the top of the steep stone steps; in front of people's house; both property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location
3	wave	gerund	the linden tree not said here			above people	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above they=Location
4	nod	participle	people not said here			in a gentle friendly way to passers	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in way=Theme
5	make	past	way	one feel			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material feel=Product

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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