Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 162
The air was fresh and balmy, like a breeze from the mountains perfumed with flowers from a valley of roses.
Who acts: air · What happens: be, perfume · To what, where: mountains, valley
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 (air), 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 air | det |
| 2 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fresh | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fresh | cop |
| 4 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 balmy | cc |
| 6 | balmy | balmy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fresh | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 breeze | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 breeze | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 breeze | det |
| 10 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fresh | parataxis |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 mountains | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mountains | det |
| 13 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 breeze | nmod |
| 14 | perfumed | perfume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 mountains | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 flowers | case |
| 16 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 perfumed | obl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 valley | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 valley | det |
| 19 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 perfumed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 roses | case |
| 21 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 valley | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fresh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the air | fresh property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the air not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | perfume | participle | the mountains not said here | a valley of roses | with flowers | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=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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