Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 73

The heather bloomed in pride and beauty, and the shepherd-boy sat on a barrow and blew his pipe, which he had carved for himself out of a sheep bone.

Who acts: heather · What happens: bloom, sit, blow, carve · To what, where: heather, pride, barrow, pipe, sheep bone

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 (heather), 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	2 heather	det
2	heather	heather	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	nsubj
3	bloomed	bloom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 heather	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 pride	case
5	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bloomed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 beauty	cc
7	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pride	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
11	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 boy	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 shepherd	punct
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 barrow	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 barrow	det
17	barrow	barrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 blew	cc
19	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	conj
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 pipe	nmod:poss
21	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blew	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 carved	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 carved	nsubj:pass
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 carved	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 carved	aux
26	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 pipe	acl:relcl
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 himself	case
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 blew	obl
29	out	out	ADP	_	33 bone	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 bone	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bone	det
32	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bone	compound
33	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blew	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bloom	participle		the heather not said here	pride and beauty		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pride=Location
2	sit	past	the heather		a barrow		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on barrow=Location
3	blow	past	the heather not said here	boy's pipe	a sheep bone	for boy	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pipe=Material for himself=Beneficiary
4	carve	past · perfect · passive		boy's pipe			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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