Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 32

The sun shone; the young green leaves burst forth; the swallows built their nests; windows were opened, and the children sat once more in the garden on the roof, high above all the other rooms.

Who acts: sun, young green leaves, swallows, children · What happens: shine, burst, build, open, sit · To what, where: nests, windows, garden

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, young green leaves, swallows, children), 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 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shone	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 burst	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 leaves	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 leaves	amod
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 leaves	amod
8	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 burst	nsubj
9	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	conj
10	forth	forth	ADV	_	9 burst	advmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 built	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 swallows	det
13	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 built	nsubj
14	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 nests	nmod:poss
16	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 built	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 opened	punct
18	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 opened	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 opened	aux:pass
20	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shone	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sat	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sat	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 children	det
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sat	nsubj
25	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	conj
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 more	advmod
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 sat	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 garden	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 garden	det
30	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sat	obl
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 roof	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 roof	det
33	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sat	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 high	punct
35	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sat	advcl
36	above	above	ADP	_	40 rooms	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	40 rooms	det:predet
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 rooms	det
39	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 rooms	amod
40	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 high	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the sun				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burst	present	the young green leaves			forth property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	build	past	the swallows	swallows's nests			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product
4	open	past · passive		windows			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
5	sit	past	the children		the garden	on the roof	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location

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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