Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 138
"What merry sounds are on the wind, As marriage rites together bind A quiet and a loving pair, Though formed of kid, yet smooth and fair!
Who acts: merry sounds, marriage rites · What happens: be, bind, form · To what, where: wind, quiet
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merry sounds, marriage rites), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:8530): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 wind | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 sounds | det |
| 3 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sounds | amod |
| 4 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wind | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wind | cop |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 wind | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wind | det |
| 8 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bind | punct |
| 10 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 bind | mark |
| 11 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rites | compound |
| 12 | rites | rite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bind | nsubj |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 bind | advmod |
| 14 | bind | bind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wind | advcl |
| 15 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 quiet | det |
| 16 | quiet | quiet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bind | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 pair | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pair | det |
| 19 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pair | amod |
| 20 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 quiet | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 formed | punct |
| 22 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 23 formed | mark |
| 23 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 bind | advcl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 kid | case |
| 25 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 formed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 smooth | punct |
| 27 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 28 smooth | cc |
| 28 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wind | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fair | cc |
| 30 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 smooth | conj |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 wind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | what merry sounds | the wind | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bind in a quote | present | marriage rites | a quiet and a loving pair | together property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quiet=Patient | |||
| 3 | form in a quote | participle | marriage rites not said here | of kid | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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