Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 6

All the children were at school, and while they were sitting on the forms and learning their lessons, it sat on its thin green stalk and learnt from the sun and from its surroundings how kind God is, and it rejoiced that the song of the little lark expressed so sweetly and distinctly its own feelings.

Who acts: children, school, kind God, little lark · What happens: be, sit, learn, express, sing · To what, where: school, forms, lessons, thin green stalk, sun, surroundings

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 (children, school, kind God, little lark), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 children	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 school	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 school	cop
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 school	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sat	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sat	cc
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 sitting	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sitting	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sitting	aux
12	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 sat	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 forms	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 forms	det
15	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sitting	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 learning	cc
17	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sitting	conj
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 lessons	nmod:poss
19	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 learning	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sitting	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sat	nsubj
22	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 school	acl:relcl
23	on	on	ADP	_	27 stalk	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 stalk	nmod:poss
25	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stalk	amod
26	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stalk	amod
27	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sat	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 learnt	cc
29	learnt	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sat	conj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 sun	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sun	det
32	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 learnt	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 rejoiced	cc
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 surroundings	case
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 surroundings	nmod:poss
36	surroundings	surroundings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	44 rejoiced	obl
37	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	38 kind	advmod
38	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 God	amod
39	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 rejoiced	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 rejoiced	cop
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 rejoiced	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 rejoiced	cc
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 rejoiced	nsubj
44	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sat	conj
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 expressed	mark
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 song	det
47	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 expressed	nsubj:pass
48	of	of	ADP	_	51 lark	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 lark	det
50	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 lark	amod
51	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 song	nmod
52	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 rejoiced	advcl
53	so	so	ADV	_	54 sweetly	advmod
54	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	52 expressed	advmod
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 distinctly	cc
56	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	54 sweetly	conj
57	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 feelings	nmod:poss
58	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 feelings	amod
59	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 sweetly	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 school	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	all children		school		tree rules
2	sit	past · progressive	children = child		the forms		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on form=Location
3	learn	gerund	children = child not said here	children's lessons			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic
4	sit	past	school	school not said here	school's thin green stalk		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent school=Theme on stalk=Location
5	learn	past	school not said here		the sun		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from sun=Source
6	is	present	kind God		school's surroundings	rejoice property	tree rules
7	express	participle · passive		the song of the little lark		sweetly property	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
8	sing		the little lark				nom song «communication 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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