Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 3
It is warm and beautiful there; the fiery pomegranate flowers peep from among dark laurels; a cool refreshing breeze from the mountains blows over the orange gardens, over the Moorish halls with their golden cupolas and coloured walls.
Who acts: sea, fiery pomegranate flowers, cool refreshing breeze · What happens: be, peep, refresh, blow · To what, where: orange gardens
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, fiery pomegranate flowers, cool refreshing breeze), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 warm | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 warm | cop |
| 3 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 beautiful | cc |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 warm | conj |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 beautiful | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 peep | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flowers | det |
| 9 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flowers | amod |
| 10 | pomegranate | pomegranate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flowers | compound |
| 11 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 peep | nsubj |
| 12 | peep | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 warm | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 laurels | case |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 laurels | case |
| 15 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 laurels | amod |
| 16 | laurels | laurel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 peep | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 blows | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 breeze | det |
| 19 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 breeze | amod |
| 20 | refreshing | refresh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 breeze | amod |
| 21 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 blows | nsubj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 mountains | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mountains | det |
| 24 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 breeze | nmod |
| 25 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 warm | conj |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 gardens | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 gardens | det |
| 28 | orange | orange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 gardens | amod |
| 29 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 blows | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 halls | punct |
| 31 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 halls | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 halls | det |
| 33 | Moorish | moorish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 halls | amod |
| 34 | halls | hall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 blows | obl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 cupolas | case |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 cupolas | nmod:poss |
| 37 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 cupolas | amod |
| 38 | cupolas | cupola | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 halls | nmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 walls | cc |
| 40 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 walls | amod |
| 41 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 cupolas | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 warm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | sea | warm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | sea not said here | there | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | peep | present | the fiery pomegranate flowers | from dark laurels | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from laurel=Theme | ||||
| 4 | refresh | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | blow | present | a cool refreshing breeze from the mountains | the orange gardens | over the Moorish halls with flowers's golden cupolas and coloured walls | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
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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