Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 57

And all the birds sang the same tune, the flowers danced on their stems, and the old trees nodded as if Ole-Luk-Oie had been telling them stories as well.

Who acts: birds, flowers, Ole · What happens: sing, dance, nod, tell, stem · To what, where: same tune, stems, old trees, stories, flowers · 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 (birds, flowers, Ole), 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	_	5 sang	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 birds	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birds	det
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sang	nsubj
5	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tune	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tune	amod
8	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sang	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 danced	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flowers	det
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 danced	nsubj
12	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tune	acl:relcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 stems	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 stems	nmod:poss
15	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 danced	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 trees	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 trees	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trees	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 trees	amod
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sang	obl
21	nodded	nod	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 trees	acl
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 telling	mark
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 telling	mark
24	Ole	Ole	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 telling	nsubj
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 Luk	punct
26	Luk	Luk	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Ole	conj
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 Oie	punct
28	Oie	Oie	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Ole	conj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 telling	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 telling	aux
31	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 nodded	advcl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 telling	iobj
33	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 telling	obj
34	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	31 telling	advmod
35	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 as	fixed
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	all birds	the same tune			the old trees obl	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=Theme
2	dance	past	the flowers	the same tune not said here		flowers's stems		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=Theme
3	nod	participle		the old trees not said here				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · progressive	Ole and Luk and Oie	stories	flowers = flower			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic
5	stem		flowers = flower					nom stem «communication 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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