Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 38

The sails glittered like silver, and six swans, each with a golden circlet round its neck, and a bright blue star on its forehead, drew the boat past the green wood, where the trees talked of robbers and witches, and the flowers of beautiful little elves and fairies, whose histories the butterflies had related to them.

Who acts: sails, trees · What happens: glitter, draw, talk, relate · To what, where: sails, boat, flowers, trees

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 (sails, trees), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sails	det
2	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 drew	nsubj
3	glittered	glitter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sails	acl
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 silver	case
5	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glittered	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 drew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 drew	cc
8	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 swans	nummod
9	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 drew	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 each	punct
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 swans	appos
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 circlet	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 circlet	det
14	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 circlet	amod
15	circlet	circlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 each	nmod
16	round	round	ADP	_	18 neck	case
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 neck	nmod:poss
18	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 circlet	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 star	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 star	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 star	det
22	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 star	amod
23	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 star	amod
24	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 circlet	appos
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 forehead	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 forehead	nmod:poss
27	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 star	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 swans	punct
29	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 boat	det
31	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 drew	obj
32	past	past	ADP	_	35 wood	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wood	det
34	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 wood	amod
35	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 drew	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 talked	punct
37	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	40 talked	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 trees	det
39	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 talked	nsubj
40	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 wood	conj
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 robbers	case
42	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 talked	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 witches	cc
44	witches	witch	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 robbers	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 related	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 related	cc
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 flowers	det
48	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 related	nsubj:pass
49	of	of	ADP	_	52 elves	case
50	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 elves	amod
51	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 elves	amod
52	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 flowers	nmod
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 fairies	cc
54	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 elves	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 histories	punct
56	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	57 histories	nmod:poss
57	histories	history	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 elves	conj
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 butterflies	det
59	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 elves	conj
60	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 related	aux
61	related	relate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 drew	conj
62	to	to	ADP	_	63 them	case
63	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 related	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	glitter	participle		the sails not said here		like silver	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	draw	past	the sails	the boat		past the green wood	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
3	talk	past	the trees			of robbers and witches	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	relate	past · perfect · passive		the flowers of beautiful little elves and fairies and beautiful little elves and fairies and histories and the butterflies's histories and the butterflies	trees = tree		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to they=Recipient

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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