Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 17

One day passed just like another; sometimes the winds rustled through the leaves of the rose-bush, and would whisper to the roses, "Who can be more beautiful than you!"

Who acts: One day, winds · What happens: pass, rustle, whisper, be · To what, where: leaves, roses · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One day, winds), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 another	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 another	case
6	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	3 passed	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 rustled	punct
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 rustled	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 winds	det
10	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rustled	nsubj
11	rustled	rustle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
12	through	through	ADP	_	14 leaves	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 leaves	det
14	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rustled	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 bush	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bush	det
17	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bush	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 rose	punct
19	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leaves	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 whisper	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 whisper	cc
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 whisper	aux
23	whisper	whisper	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	parataxis
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 roses	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 roses	det
26	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 whisper	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 beautiful	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 beautiful	punct
29	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 beautiful	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 beautiful	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 beautiful	cop
32	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 beautiful	advmod
33	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 whisper	conj
34	than	than	ADP	_	35 you	case
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 beautiful	obl
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 whisper	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	One day				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rustle	past	the winds		the leaves of the rose bush	sometimes property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through leaf=Location
3	whisper speech: express	would		the roses			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to rose=Recipient
4	is in a quote	can				than the roses = rose; beautiful property	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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