Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 36

It sang of the happy days when it could merrily fly about, of fresh green corn in the fields, and of the time when it could soar almost up to the clouds.

Who acts: reason · What happens: sing, fly, soar · To what, where: clouds

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reason), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 days	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 days	det
5	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sang	obl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 fly	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fly	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 fly	aux
10	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	11 fly	advmod
11	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sang	advcl
12	about	about	ADV	_	11 fly	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 corn	punct
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 corn	case
15	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 corn	amod
16	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 corn	amod
17	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fly	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 fields	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fields	det
20	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 corn	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 soar	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 soar	cc
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 time	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 time	det
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 soar	obl
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 soar	advmod
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 soar	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 soar	aux
29	soar	soar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sang	conj
30	almost	almost	ADV	_	31 up	advmod
31	up	up	ADP	_	34 clouds	case
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 clouds	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 clouds	det
34	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 soar	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	reason		day		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly	could	reason			of fresh green corn in the fields; about, merrily property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of corn=Trajectory
3	soar	could	reason	the clouds	time		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme up cloud=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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