Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 14

Then the walls and arches of the church were covered with flowering junipers and lime trees breathing forth fragrance; the branches waved, creating a pleasant coolness; they bent and parted, and the ship sailed between them through the air and over the sea.

Who acts: lime trees, branches, ship · What happens: cover, breathe, wave, create, bend, part · To what, where: walls, fragrance, pleasant coolness, air

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lime trees, branches, ship), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 covered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 walls	det
3	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 covered	nsubj:pass
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 arches	cc
5	arches	arch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walls	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 church	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 church	det
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arches	nmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 covered	aux:pass
10	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 junipers	case
12	flowering	flowering	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 junipers	compound
13	junipers	juniper	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 covered	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 trees	cc
15	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 trees	compound
16	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 junipers	conj
17	breathing	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 trees	acl
18	forth	forth	ADV	_	17 breathing	advmod
19	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 breathing	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 waved	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 branches	det
22	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 waved	nsubj
23	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 covered	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 creating	punct
25	creating	create	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 waved	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 coolness	det
27	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 coolness	amod
28	coolness	coolness	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 creating	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 bent	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bent	nsubj
31	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 waved	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 parted	cc
33	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 bent	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 sailed	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 sailed	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ship	det
37	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sailed	nsubj
38	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 waved	conj
39	between	between	ADP	_	40 them	case
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 sailed	obl
41	through	through	ADP	_	43 air	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 air	det
43	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sailed	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 sea	cc
45	over	over	ADP	_	47 sea	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 sea	det
47	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 air	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		the walls and arches of the church		then	with flowering junipers and lime trees	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with juniper=Theme
2	breathe	gerund	lime trees not said here	fragrance			forth property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragrance=Theme
3	wave	past	the branches					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	create	gerund	the branches not said here	a pleasant coolness				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coolness=Result
5	bend	past	branches = branch					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	part	past	branches = branch not said here					vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	sail	past	the ship		the air and the sea		between branches = branch	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through air=Trajectory

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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