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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 32

They drank in the sunlight and the air; lived on the sunlight by day, and on the dew by night; bloomed--were visited by bees and hornets, who looked after the honey, the dowry of the flower, and they took the honey, and left the flower where it was.

Who acts: pot, bees · What happens: drink, live, bloom, visit, look, take · To what, where: sunlight, dew, honey, flower

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pot, bees), 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

nsubjcasedetoblccdetconjpunctconjcasedetoblcaseoblpunctcccasedetoblcasenmodpunctconjpunctaux:passxcompcaseobl:agentccconjpunctnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblpunctdetapposcasedetnmodpunctccnsubjparataxisdetobjpunctccconjdetobjadvmodnsubjacl:relclpunctrootTheyPRONdrankVERBinADPtheDETsunlightNOUNandCCONJtheDETairNOUN;PUNCTlivedVERBonADPtheDETsunlightNOUNbyADPdayNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJonADPtheDETdewNOUNbyADPnightNOUN;PUNCTbloomedVERB--PUNCTwereAUXvisitedVERBbyADPbeesNOUNandCCONJhornetsNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONlookedVERBafterADPtheDEThoneyNOUN,PUNCTtheDETdowryNOUNofADPtheDETflowerNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtheyPRONtookVERBtheDEThoneyNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJleftVERBtheDETflowerNOUNwhereADVitPRONwasAUX.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 dranknsubj
2drankdrinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3ininADP_5 sunlightcase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 sunlightdet
5sunlightsunlightNOUNNumber=Sing2 drankobl
6andandCCONJ_8 aircc
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 airdet
8airairNOUNNumber=Sing5 sunlightconj
9;;PUNCT_10 livedpunct
10livedliveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 drankconj
11ononADP_13 sunlightcase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 sunlightdet
13sunlightsunlightNOUNNumber=Sing10 livedobl
14bybyADP_15 daycase
15daydayNOUNNumber=Sing10 livedobl
16,,PUNCT_24 bloomedpunct
17andandCCONJ_24 bloomedcc
18ononADP_20 dewcase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 dewdet
20dewdewNOUNNumber=Sing24 bloomedobl
21bybyADP_22 nightcase
22nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing20 dewnmod
23;;PUNCT_20 dewpunct
24bloomedbloomVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 drankconj
25----PUNCT_27 visitedpunct
26werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 visitedaux:pass
27visitedvisitVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass24 bloomedxcomp
28bybyADP_29 beescase
29beesbeeNOUNNumber=Plur27 visitedobl:agent
30andandCCONJ_31 hornetscc
31hornetshornetNOUNNumber=Plur29 beesconj
32,,PUNCT_34 lookedpunct
33whowhoPRONPronType=Rel34 lookednsubj
34lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin29 beesacl:relcl
35afterafterADP_37 honeycase
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 honeydet
37honeyhoneyNOUNNumber=Sing34 lookedobl
38,,PUNCT_40 dowrypunct
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 dowrydet
40dowrydowryNOUNNumber=Sing37 honeyappos
41ofofADP_43 flowercase
42thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art43 flowerdet
43flowerflowerNOUNNumber=Sing40 dowrynmod
44,,PUNCT_47 tookpunct
45andandCCONJ_47 tookcc
46theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs47 tooknsubj
47tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 drankparataxis
48thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art49 honeydet
49honeyhoneyNOUNNumber=Sing47 tookobj
50,,PUNCT_52 leftpunct
51andandCCONJ_52 leftcc
52leftleaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin47 tookconj
53thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art54 flowerdet
54flowerflowerNOUNNumber=Sing52 leftobj
55wherewhereADVPronType=Rel57 wasadvmod
56ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs57 wasnsubj
57wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin54 floweracl:relcl
58..PUNCT_2 drankpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1drinkpastpotthe sunlight and the airvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2liveparticiplepot not said herethe sunlightdayvn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sunlight=Location
3bloomparticiplepot not said herethe dew by nighttree rules
4visitpast · passivebees and hornetsvn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5lookpastbees and hornetsafter the honeyvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6takepastpotthe honeyvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Theme
7leavepastpot not said herethe flowervn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=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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