Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 147

Here they both descended to the earth, and stretched themselves on the soft grass, while the flowers bowed to the breath of the wind as if to welcome it. "

Who acts: vines, flowers · What happens: descend, stretch, bow, welcome · To what, where: earth, vines, soft grass, flower

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vines, flowers), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 descended	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 descended	nsubj
3	both	both	ADV	_	4 descended	advmod
4	descended	descend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 earth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 earth	det
7	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 descended	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stretched	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stretched	cc
10	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 descended	advcl
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 stretched	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 grass	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 grass	det
14	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grass	amod
15	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stretched	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bowed	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 bowed	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 flowers	det
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bowed	nsubj
20	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stretched	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 breath	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 breath	det
23	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bowed	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 wind	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wind	det
26	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 breath	nmod
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 welcome	mark
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 welcome	mark
29	to	to	PART	_	30 welcome	mark
30	welcome	welcome	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 bowed	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 welcome	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 descended	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 descended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	descend	past	vines = vine		the earth; here	both property	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to earth=Location
2	stretch	past	vines = vine not said here	vines = vine	the soft grass		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient
3	bow	past	the flowers			to the breath of the wind	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to breath=Theme
4	welcome	to-infinitive	the flowers not said here	flower			vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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