Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 37

People looked darkly, gloomily, and almost angrily at the sunshine of spring, at the twittering birds, and all the cheerful green; the tongue could not even bear the old merry, popular songs, and they were laid in the coffin with so much that our heart held dear.

Who acts: People, tongue · What happens: look, not bear, lay, hold · To what, where: old merry popular songs, people, coffin, heart

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, tongue), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	darkly	darkly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gloomily	punct
5	gloomily	gloomily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 darkly	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sunshine	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sunshine	cc
8	almost	almost	ADV	_	9 angrily	advmod
9	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	12 sunshine	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 sunshine	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sunshine	det
12	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	parataxis
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 spring	case
14	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sunshine	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 birds	punct
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 birds	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 birds	det
18	twittering	twittering	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 birds	compound
19	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 green	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 green	cc
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 green	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 green	det
24	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 green	amod
25	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	parataxis
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 bear	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tongue	det
28	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bear	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 bear	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 bear	advmod
31	even	even	ADV	_	32 bear	advmod
32	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 looked	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 songs	det
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 songs	amod
35	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 songs	amod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 merry	punct
37	popular	popular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 songs	amod
38	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 bear	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 laid	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 laid	cc
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 laid	nsubj
42	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 laid	aux:pass
43	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 looked	conj
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 coffin	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 coffin	det
46	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 laid	obl
47	with	with	ADP	_	52 heart	case
48	so	so	ADV	_	49 much	advmod
49	much	much	ADV	_	52 heart	advmod
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 heart	mark
51	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 heart	nmod:poss
52	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 laid	obl
53	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 heart	acl
54	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 held	xcomp
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	People			at the twittering birds; darkly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bird=Theme
2	not bear	could	the tongue	the old merry popular songs			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Patient
3	lay	past · passive		people	the coffin	with our heart	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in coffin=Destination
4	hold	participle		our heart not said here		dear property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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