Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 144

And the swallow talked to them of warm countries, where the grapes hang in large clusters on the vines, and the air is soft and mild, and about the mountains glowing with colors more beautiful than we can think of.

Who acts: swallow, grapes, air, mountains, we · What happens: talk, hang, be, glow, think · To what, where: presents, large clusters

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 (swallow, grapes, air, mountains), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 talked	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 swallow	det
3	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 talked	nsubj
4	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 talked	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 countries	case
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 countries	amod
9	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 talked	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hang	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 hang	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 grapes	det
13	grapes	grape	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hang	nsubj
14	hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 talked	parataxis
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 clusters	case
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 clusters	amod
17	clusters	cluster	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hang	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 vines	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 vines	det
20	vines	vine	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 clusters	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 soft	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 soft	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 air	det
24	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 soft	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 soft	cop
26	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hang	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 mild	cc
28	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 soft	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 mountains	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 mountains	cc
31	about	about	ADP	_	33 mountains	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 mountains	det
33	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 talked	obl
34	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 mountains	acl
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 colors	case
36	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 glowing	obl
37	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 beautiful	advmod
38	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 colors	amod
39	than	than	SCONJ	_	42 think	mark
40	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 think	nsubj
41	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 think	aux
42	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 beautiful	advcl
43	of	of	ADP	_	42 think	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk	past	the swallow	presents = present		of warm countries; about the mountains	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent about mountain=Topic
2	hang	present	the grapes		large clusters on the vines		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cluster=Location
3	is	present	the air			soft property	tree rules
4	be		the air not said here				tree rules
5	glow	gerund	the mountains not said here			with colors	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with color=Theme
6	think speech: other	can	we				vn focus-87.1-1 «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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