Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 35
Ole-Luk-Oie touched the picture with his magic wand, and immediately the birds commenced singing, the branches of the trees rustled, and the clouds moved across the sky, casting their shadows on the landscape beneath them.
Who acts: Ole Luk Oie, birds, branches, clouds, pictures · What happens: touch, commence, sing, rustle, move, cast · To what, where: picture, sky, shadows, landscape · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Ole Luk Oie, birds, branches, clouds), 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 | Ole | ole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Oie | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ole | punct |
| 3 | Luk | Luk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Oie | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Luk | punct |
| 5 | Oie | Oie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 touched | nsubj |
| 6 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 picture | det |
| 8 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touched | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 wand | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wand | amod |
| 12 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touched | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 commenced | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 commenced | cc |
| 15 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 18 commenced | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 birds | det |
| 17 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 commenced | nsubj |
| 18 | commenced | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 touched | conj |
| 19 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 commenced | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 branches | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 branches | det |
| 22 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 rustled | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 trees | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 trees | det |
| 25 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 branches | nmod |
| 26 | rustled | rustle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 singing | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 moved | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 moved | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 clouds | det |
| 30 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 moved | nsubj |
| 31 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 touched | conj |
| 32 | across | across | ADP | _ | 34 sky | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sky | det |
| 34 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 moved | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 casting | punct |
| 36 | casting | cast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 moved | advcl |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 shadows | nmod:poss |
| 38 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 casting | obj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 landscape | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 landscape | det |
| 41 | landscape | landscape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 casting | obl |
| 42 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 43 them | case |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 landscape | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | Ole Luk Oie | the picture | with Oie's magic wand | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent picture=Experiencer with wand=Instrument | |||
| 2 | commence | past | the birds | immediately property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | the birds not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | rustle | past | the branches of the trees | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | move | past | the clouds | the sky | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme across sky=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | cast | gerund | the clouds not said here | pictures's shadows | the landscape beneath pictures | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme on landscape=Destination | |||
| 7 | shadow | pictures = picture | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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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