Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 5

Here were birds from all quarters of the world assembled together; birds from the primeval forests of America, from the rose gardens of Damascus, and from the deserts of Africa, in which the elephant and the lion may boast of being the only rulers.

Who acts: birds · What happens: be, assemble, boast · To what, where: birds, quarters

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 (birds), 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	3 birds	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 birds	cop
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 quarters	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 quarters	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 quarters	det
6	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quarters	nmod
10	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 quarters	acl
11	together	together	ADV	_	10 assembled	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 birds	punct
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 boast	nsubj
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 forests	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forests	det
16	primeval	primeval	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 forests	compound
17	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 birds	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 America	case
19	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 forests	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gardens	punct
21	from	from	ADP	_	24 gardens	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gardens	det
23	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gardens	compound
24	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 birds	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Damascus	case
26	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 gardens	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 deserts	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 deserts	cc
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 deserts	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 deserts	det
31	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 birds	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Africa	case
33	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 deserts	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 elephant	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 which	case
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 elephant	obl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 elephant	det
38	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 birds	conj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 lion	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 lion	det
41	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 elephant	conj
42	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 boast	aux
43	boast	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 quarters	acl:relcl
44	of	of	ADP	_	48 rulers	case
45	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 rulers	cop
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 rulers	det
47	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 rulers	amod
48	rulers	ruler	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 boast	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 quarters	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		birds	here		tree rules
2	assemble	participle		all quarters of the world not said here		together property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	boast speech: other	may	birds from the primeval forests of America and the rose gardens of Damascus and the deserts of Africa and the elephant and the lion	all quarters of the world not said here			tree rules
4	is	gerund				of the only rulers	tree rules

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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