Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 28

He was led by the well-known path, over the meadow to Vosborg; once more the elders were in bloom and the lofty lime-trees gave forth sweet fragrance, and it seemed as if it were but yesterday that he had last seen the spot.

Who acts: known path, elders, bloom, it · What happens: lead, know, be, give, seem, see · To what, where: Jurgen, meadow, bloom, sweet fragrance, fragrance

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (known path, elders, bloom, it), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 led	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 led	aux:pass
3	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	9 path	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 path	det
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 known	advmod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 well	punct
8	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 path	amod
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 meadow	punct
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 meadow	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 meadow	det
13	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 led	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Vosborg	case
15	Vosborg	Vosborg	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 meadow	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 bloom	punct
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 more	advmod
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 bloom	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 elders	det
20	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bloom	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bloom	cop
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 bloom	case
23	bloom	bloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gave	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 trees	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 trees	det
26	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 trees	amod
27	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 trees	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 lime	punct
29	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bloom	conj
30	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 led	parataxis
31	forth	forth	ADV	_	30 gave	advmod
32	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 fragrance	amod
33	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gave	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 seemed	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 seemed	cc
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 seemed	nsubj
37	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 gave	parataxis
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	48 seen	mark
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	48 seen	mark
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 seen	nsubj:pass
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 seen	aux:pass
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 seen	cc
43	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 seen	nsubj:pass
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 seen	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 seen	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 seen	aux
47	last	last	ADV	_	48 seen	advmod
48	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 seemed	ccomp
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 spot	det
50	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 seen	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	past · passive	the known path	Jurgen	the meadow to Vosborg		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme over meadow=Destination
2	know	participle				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	the elders		bloom and the lofty lime trees		tree rules
4	give	past	bloom and the lofty lime trees	sweet fragrance		forth property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragrance=Theme
5	seem	past	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	see a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		fragrance		last 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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