Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 77

He thought of the plenteousness of the southern fruit, of the red pomegranate flowers, of the humming, buzzing, and toiling in the great beehive of a city he had seen; but home is the best place after all, and Jurgen's home was Denmark.

Who acts: Jurgen, humming, home · What happens: think, buzz, toil, see, be · To what, where: great beehive, city, best place, Denmark · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, humming, home), 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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 plenteousness	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plenteousness	det
5	plenteousness	plenteousness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 fruit	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fruit	det
8	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fruit	amod
9	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plenteousness	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 flowers	punct
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 flowers	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 flowers	det
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 flowers	amod
14	pomegranate	pomegranate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flowers	compound
15	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thought	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 humming	punct
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 humming	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 humming	det
19	humming	humming	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flowers	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 buzzing	punct
21	buzzing	buzz	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 humming	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 toiling	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 toiling	cc
24	toiling	toil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 buzzing	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 beehive	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 beehive	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 beehive	amod
28	beehive	beehive	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 toiling	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 city	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 city	det
31	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 beehive	nmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 seen	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 seen	aux
34	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 city	acl:relcl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 place	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 place	cc
37	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 place	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 place	cop
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 place	det
40	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 place	amod
41	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
42	after	after	ADP	_	43 all	case
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 place	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 Denmark	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 Denmark	cc
46	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 home	nmod:poss
47	's	's	PART	_	46 Jurgen	case
48	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 Denmark	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 Denmark	cop
50	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thought	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Jurgen				of the plenteousness of the southern fruit	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	buzz	gerund	the humming not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	toil	gerund	the humming not said here		the great beehive of a city			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in beehive=Trajectory
4	see	past · perfect	Jurgen	a city not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer city=Stimulus
5	is a	present	home	the best place		after all		tree rules
6	is a	past	Jurgen's home	Denmark				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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