Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 6

Corn grows in the surrounding fields, not only rye and barley, but oats,-pretty oats that, when ripe, look like a number of little golden canary-birds sitting on a bough.

Who acts: Corn, oats, little golden canary birds · What happens: grow, look, sit · To what, where: surrounding fields, bough

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Corn, oats, little golden canary birds), 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	Corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 fields	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fields	det
5	surrounding	surrounding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fields	compound
6	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grows	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rye	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 rye	advmod
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 rye	advmod
10	rye	rye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 barley	cc
12	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rye	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 look	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 look	cc
15	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 look	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 oats	punct
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 pretty	punct
18	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 oats	amod
19	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 oats	conj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 ripe	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ripe	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 ripe	advmod
23	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 oats	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 oats	punct
25	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 grows	parataxis
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 number	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 number	det
28	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 look	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	34 birds	case
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 birds	amod
31	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 birds	amod
32	canary	canary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 birds	amod
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 canary	punct
34	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 number	nmod
35	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 birds	acl
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 bough	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 bough	det
38	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sitting	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Corn	the surrounding fields		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location
2	look	infinitive	oats and pretty oats		like a number of little golden canary birds	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	sit	gerund	little golden canary birds not said here	a bough		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bough=Location

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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