Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 156

The apple-trees were in full blossom, and the fragrant elders bent their long green branches down to the stream which wound round a smooth lawn.

Who acts: apple trees, fragrant elders · What happens: be, bend · To what, where: full blossom, long green branches

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apple trees, fragrant elders), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trees	det
2	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trees	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 apple	punct
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 blossom	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 blossom	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 blossom	case
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blossom	amod
8	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bent	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bent	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 elders	det
12	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 elders	amod
13	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bent	nsubj
14	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 blossom	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 branches	nmod:poss
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 branches	amod
17	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 branches	amod
18	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bent	obj
19	down	down	ADV	_	22 stream	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 stream	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 stream	det
22	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bent	obl
23	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	24 wound	det
24	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stream	obj
25	round	round	ADP	_	28 lawn	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 lawn	det
27	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 lawn	amod
28	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bent	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 blossom	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the apple trees			full blossom			tree rules
2	bend	past	the fragrant elders	elders's long green branches				to the stream result; round a smooth lawn	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent branch=Patient to stream=Result

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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