Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 3

And when one looked at the fields, how beautifully the corn stood and how green it shone, without comparison! and there was a twittering and a fluttering of all the little birds, as if the day were a great festival; and so it was, for it was Sunday.

Who acts: one, corn, twittering, day, little birds · What happens: look, stand, shine, be, flutter · To what, where: comparison, great festival

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 (one, corn, twittering, day), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 stood	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 looked	advmod
3	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stood	parataxis
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 fields	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fields	det
7	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 beautifully	advmod
10	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	13 stood	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 corn	det
12	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 green	cc
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 green	advmod
16	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stood	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 shone	nsubj
18	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stood	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 comparison	punct
20	without	without	ADP	_	21 comparison	case
21	comparison	comparison	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shone	obj
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 comparison	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 was	cc
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 shone	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 twittering	det
27	twittering	twittering	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 was	nsubj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fluttering	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 fluttering	det
30	fluttering	fluttering	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 twittering	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 birds	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 birds	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 birds	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 birds	amod
35	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 fluttering	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 festival	punct
37	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 festival	mark
38	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 festival	mark
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 day	det
40	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 festival	nsubj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 festival	cop
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 festival	det
43	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 festival	amod
44	festival	festival	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 twittering	conj
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	49 was	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 was	cc
47	so	so	ADV	_	49 was	advmod
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 was	nsubj
49	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stood	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 Sunday	punct
51	for	for	ADP	_	54 Sunday	case
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 Sunday	nsubj
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 Sunday	cop
54	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 was	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	one			at the fields	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at field=Theme
2	stand	past	the corn			beautifully property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	shine	past	corn	comparison			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent comparison=Theme
4	be	past	a twittering and a fluttering of all little birds and a great festival		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	the day	a great festival			tree rules
6	be	past	corn				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	corn			for Sunday	tree rules
8	flutter		all little birds				nom fluttering «event intransitive»: of=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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