Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 33
The flowering lime trees could not breathe refreshing fragrance into that abode, where everything was dark and mouldy.
Who acts: flowering lime trees, everything · What happens: not breathe, refresh, be · To what, where: fragrance, abode
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 (flowering lime trees, everything), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 trees | det |
| 2 | flowering | flowering | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 trees | amod |
| 3 | lime | lime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trees | compound |
| 4 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 breathe | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 breathe | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 breathe | advmod |
| 7 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | refreshing | refresh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 breathe | xcomp |
| 9 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 refreshing | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 abode | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 abode | det |
| 12 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 refreshing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dark | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 dark | advmod |
| 15 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 dark | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 dark | cop |
| 17 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 breathe | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 mouldy | cc |
| 19 | mouldy | mouldy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dark | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 breathe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not breathe | could | the flowering lime trees | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | refresh | gerund | the flowering lime trees not said here | fragrance | that abode | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fragrance=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | is | past | everything | dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | everything not said here | 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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