Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 170
And the words fell like warm sunbeams upon a teeming soil.
Who acts: words · What happens: fall, teem · To what, where: teeming soil
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fell | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 sunbeams | case |
| 6 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sunbeams | amod |
| 7 | sunbeams | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fell | obl |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 soil | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 soil | det |
| 10 | teeming | teem | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 soil | amod |
| 11 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the words | a teeming soil | like warm sunbeams | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon soil=Location | |||
| 2 | teem | gerund | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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