Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 90

In Spain, where balmy breezes blow over the Moorish cupolas and gently stir the orange and myrtle groves, where singing and the sound of the castanets are always heard, the richest merchant in the place, a childless old man, sat in a luxurious house, while children marched in procession through the streets with waving flags and lighted tapers.

Who acts: balmy breezes · What happens: blow, stir, sing, hear, sit, march · To what, where: Spain, orange, sound, children, luxurious house, procession

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (balmy breezes), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Spain	case
2	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 blow	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Spain	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 blow	advmod
5	balmy	balmy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 breezes	amod
6	breezes	breeze	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 blow	nsubj
7	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	over	over	ADP	_	11 cupolas	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cupolas	det
10	Moorish	moorish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cupolas	amod
11	cupolas	cupola	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 blow	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stir	cc
13	gently	gently	ADV	_	14 stir	advmod
14	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 blow	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 orange	det
16	orange	orange	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stir	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 groves	cc
18	myrtle	myrtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 groves	compound
19	groves	grove	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 orange	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 singing	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 singing	advmod
22	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 groves	acl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sound	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sound	det
25	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 orange	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 castanets	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 castanets	det
28	castanets	castanet	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 heard	obl
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 heard	aux:pass
30	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	31 heard	advmod
31	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 sound	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 merchant	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 merchant	det
34	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 merchant	amod
35	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 heard	conj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 place	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 place	det
38	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 merchant	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 man	punct
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 man	det
41	childless	childless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 man	amod
42	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 man	amod
43	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 place	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 sat	punct
45	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 blow	parataxis
46	in	in	ADP	_	49 house	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 house	det
48	luxurious	luxurious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 house	amod
49	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sat	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 children	punct
51	while	while	SCONJ	_	52 children	mark
52	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 sat	obl
53	marched	march	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 children	acl
54	in	in	ADP	_	55 procession	case
55	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 marched	obl
56	through	through	ADP	_	58 streets	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 streets	det
58	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 marched	obl
59	with	with	ADP	_	61 flags	case
60	waving	wave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	61 flags	amod
61	flags	flag	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 streets	nmod
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 tapers	cc
63	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	64 tapers	amod
64	tapers	taper	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 flags	conj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 blow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	blow	present	balmy breezes		Spain	over the Moorish cupolas	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	stir	infinitive	balmy breezes not said here	the orange and myrtle groves and the sound		gently property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus orange=Experiencer
3	sing speech: express	gerund					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hear	present · passive		the sound not said here		of the castanets; always property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: of castanet=Stimulus
5	sit	past		children	a luxurious house		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location
6	march	participle		children not said here	procession	through the streets with waving flags and lighted tapers	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in procession=Trajectory
7	wave	gerund					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	light	participle					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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