Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 42

The nightingale sings among the finely-fringed beech-leaves, looking at the blooming apple trees of the garden, and thinking that they bear roses.

Who acts: nightingale, trees · What happens: sing, fringe, look, bloom, think, bear · To what, where: fringed beech leaves, roses

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 (nightingale, trees), 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	2 nightingale	det
2	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sings	nsubj
3	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	among	among	ADP	_	11 leaves	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 leaves	det
6	finely	finely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fringed	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 finely	punct
8	fringed	fringe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 leaves	amod
9	beech	beech	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 leaves	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 beech	punct
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sings	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looking	punct
13	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sings	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	18 trees	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trees	det
16	blooming	bloom	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 trees	amod
17	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trees	compound
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 looking	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 garden	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 garden	det
21	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trees	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 thinking	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 thinking	cc
24	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 looking	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 bear	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bear	nsubj
27	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 thinking	advcl
28	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 bear	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sings	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	the nightingale		the fringed beech leaves		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among leaf=Location
2	fringe	participle					tree rules
3	look	gerund	the nightingale not said here			at the blooming apple trees of the garden	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tree=Theme
4	bloom	gerund					vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	think speech: other	gerund	the nightingale not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	bear	present	trees = tree	roses			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Patient

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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