Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 13

Meanwhile, the birds sang merrily outside, and the sun was shining so beautifully warm, it seemed as though every little flower said: "God, Thy kindness towards us all is without limits."

Who acts: birds, sun, it, little flower · What happens: sing, shine, seem, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, sun, it, little flower), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	5 sang	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Meanwhile	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birds	det
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sang	nsubj
5	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	5 sang	advmod
7	outside	outside	ADV	_	5 sang	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shining	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shining	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shining	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 shining	aux
13	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sang	advcl
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 beautifully	advmod
15	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	13 shining	advmod
16	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 shining	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seemed	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 seemed	nsubj
19	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sang	conj
20	as	as	ADV	_	19 seemed	advmod
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 said	mark
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 flower	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 flower	amod
24	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seemed	advcl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 God	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 God	punct
28	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 said	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 kindness	punct
30	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 kindness	nmod:poss
31	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 God	appos
32	towards	towards	ADP	_	33 us	case
33	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 kindness	nmod
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 limits	det
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 limits	cop
36	without	without	ADP	_	37 limits	case
37	limits	limit	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 God	nmod:unmarked
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sang	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the birds	meanwhile, merrily, outside property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	shine	past · progressive	the sun	beautifully, warm property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seem	past	it		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	every little flower		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present		without all limits	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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