Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 66

They had told him its story during the long winter evenings, and now he saw the stately edifice, with its double moat, and trees and bushes; the wall, covered with ferns, rose within the moat, but the lofty lime-trees were the most beautiful of all; they grew up to the highest windows, and the air was full of their sweet fragrance.

Who acts: Jurgen, trees, lofty lime trees, parents, air · What happens: tell, see, cover, rise, be, grow up · To what, where: parents, Jurgen, stately edifice, wall · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, trees, lofty lime trees, parents), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	aux
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 story	nmod:poss
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
7	during	during	ADP	_	11 evenings	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 evenings	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 evenings	amod
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 evenings	compound
11	evenings	evening	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 told	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 saw	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 edifice	det
18	stately	stately	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 edifice	amod
19	edifice	edifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 moat	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 moat	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 moat	nmod:poss
23	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 moat	amod
24	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 rose	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 rose	cc
27	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 rose	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 bushes	cc
29	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 trees	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 wall	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wall	det
32	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 rose	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 covered	punct
34	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 wall	acl
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 ferns	case
36	ferns	fern	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 covered	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 rose	punct
38	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
39	within	within	ADP	_	41 moat	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 moat	det
41	moat	moat	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 rose	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 beautiful	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 beautiful	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 trees	det
45	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 trees	amod
46	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 trees	compound
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 lime	punct
48	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 beautiful	nsubj
49	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 beautiful	cop
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 beautiful	det
51	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	52 beautiful	advmod
52	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 rose	conj
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 all	case
54	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	52 beautiful	obl
55	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 grew	punct
56	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 grew	nsubj
57	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
58	up	up	ADP	_	57 grew	compound:prt
59	to	to	ADP	_	62 windows	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 windows	det
61	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	62 windows	amod
62	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 grew	obl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 full	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 full	cc
65	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 air	det
66	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 full	nsubj
67	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 full	cop
68	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 grew	conj
69	of	of	ADP	_	72 fragrance	case
70	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	72 fragrance	nmod:poss
71	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 fragrance	amod
72	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 full	obl
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		parents = parent	Jurgen	evening		tree rules
2	see	past	Jurgen	the stately edifice		now	with castle's double moat	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer edifice=Stimulus
3	cover	participle		the wall not said here			with ferns	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fern=Theme
4	rise	past	trees and bushes				within the moat	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	the lofty lime trees				of all; beautiful property	tree rules
6	grow up	past	parents = parent				to the highest windows	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	the air				of parents's sweet fragrance; full property	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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