Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 126
Wherever he came it seemed as if sunshine travelled with him across the fields, for every flower, every bush, exhaled a renewed fragrance, as if conscious that a friend and protector was near; one who understood them, and knew their value.
Who acts: man, it, sunshine, friend, one · What happens: come, seem, travel, exhale, renew, be · To what, where: fields, renewed fragrance, friend, value
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, it, sunshine, friend), 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 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seemed | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seemed | nsubj |
| 5 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 travelled | mark |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 travelled | mark |
| 8 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 travelled | nsubj |
| 9 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seemed | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 travelled | obl |
| 12 | across | across | ADP | _ | 14 fields | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fields | det |
| 14 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 travelled | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flower | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 flower | case |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 flower | det |
| 18 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 travelled | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bush | punct |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 bush | det |
| 21 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flower | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 exhaled | punct |
| 23 | exhaled | exhale | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 travelled | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 fragrance | det |
| 25 | renewed | renew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 fragrance | amod |
| 26 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 exhaled | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 conscious | punct |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 conscious | mark |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 conscious | mark |
| 30 | conscious | conscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 exhaled | parataxis |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 near | mark |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 friend | det |
| 33 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 near | nsubj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 protector | cc |
| 35 | protector | protector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 friend | conj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 near | cop |
| 37 | near | near | ADV | _ | 30 conscious | advcl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 understood | punct |
| 39 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 understood | nsubj |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 understood | nsubj |
| 41 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seemed | conj |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 understood | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 knew | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 knew | cc |
| 45 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 understood | conj |
| 46 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 value | nmod:poss |
| 47 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 knew | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | man | wherever property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | travel | past | sunshine | the fields | with man; for every flower | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across field=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | exhale | past | sunshine not said here | a renewed fragrance | vn exhale-40.1.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragrance=Theme | ||||
| 5 | renew | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | is | past | a friend and protector | near property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | understand | past | one | friend | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | know | past | one not said here | friend's value | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer value=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | value | friend | nom value «cognition 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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