Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 133
His songs were listened to in the tavern, where the tallow candles flared, in the fresh clover field, in the forest, and on the high-seas; and it appeared as if this brother was to be more fortunate than the other two.
Who acts: tallow candles, it, brother, poet · What happens: listen, flare, appear, be, sing · To what, where: songs, fresh clover field, high seas
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 (tallow candles, it, brother, poet), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 songs | nmod:poss |
| 2 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 listened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 listened | aux:pass |
| 4 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 tavern | case |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tavern | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tavern | det |
| 8 | tavern | tavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flared | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 flared | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 candles | det |
| 12 | tallow | tallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 candles | compound |
| 13 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flared | nsubj |
| 14 | flared | flare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 listened | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 field | punct |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 field | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 field | det |
| 18 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 field | amod |
| 19 | clover | clover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 field | compound |
| 20 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flared | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 forest | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 forest | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 forest | det |
| 24 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 field | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 seas | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 seas | cc |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 seas | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 seas | det |
| 29 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 seas | amod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 high | punct |
| 31 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flared | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 appeared | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 appeared | cc |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 appeared | nsubj |
| 35 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 listened | parataxis |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 fortunate | mark |
| 37 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 44 fortunate | mark |
| 38 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 brother | det |
| 39 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 fortunate | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 fortunate | cop |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 fortunate | mark |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 fortunate | cop |
| 43 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 44 fortunate | advmod |
| 44 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 appeared | advcl |
| 45 | than | than | ADP | _ | 48 two | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 two | det |
| 47 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 two | amod |
| 48 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 fortunate | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past · passive | poet's songs | to the tavern | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flare | past | the tallow candles | the fresh clover field and the forest | the high seas | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent field=Theme | |||
| 3 | appear | past | it | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | this brother | than the other two; fortunate property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sing | poet | nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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