Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 166
The East Wind took the prince in his arms, and carried him over, while the flowers and the leaves sang the sweet songs of his childhood in tones so full and soft that no human voice could venture to imitate.
Who acts: East Wind, flowers, human voice, childhood · What happens: take, carry over, sing, venture, imitate · To what, where: prince, arms, sweet songs
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 (East Wind, flowers, human voice, childhood), 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 | 3 Wind | det |
| 2 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wind | compound |
| 3 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 arms | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 arms | nmod:poss |
| 9 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 carried | cc |
| 12 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carried | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 carried | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sang | punct |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 sang | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 flowers | det |
| 18 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sang | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 leaves | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 leaves | det |
| 21 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 flowers | conj |
| 22 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 carried | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 songs | det |
| 24 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 songs | amod |
| 25 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sang | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 childhood | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 childhood | nmod:poss |
| 28 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 songs | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 tones | case |
| 30 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 childhood | nmod |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 full | advmod |
| 32 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tones | amod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 soft | cc |
| 34 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 full | conj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 venture | mark |
| 36 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 38 voice | det |
| 37 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 voice | amod |
| 38 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 venture | nsubj |
| 39 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 venture | aux |
| 40 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 full | advcl |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 imitate | mark |
| 42 | imitate | imitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 venture | xcomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the East Wind | the prince | prince's arms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prince=Value in arm=Location | |||
| 2 | carry over | past | prince | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | the flowers and the leaves | the sweet songs of leaf's childhood in tones | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 4 | venture | could | no human voice | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | imitate | to-infinitive | no human voice not said here | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | sing | leaf's childhood in tones | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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