Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 197
On such another Easter morning as that on which Waldemar Daa imagined he had discovered the art of making gold, I heard the tones of a psalm under the stork's nest, and within the crumbling walls.
Who acts: Waldemar, kind, art, I · What happens: imagine, discover, make, hear, crumble, intonate · To what, where: art, gold, tones, nest, psalm
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Waldemar, kind, art, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:14800): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 morning | case |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 morning | amod |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 morning | det |
| 4 | Easter | Easter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 morning | compound |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heard | obl |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 morning | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 imagined | obl |
| 10 | Waldemar | Waldemar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 imagined | nsubj |
| 11 | Daa | Daa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Waldemar | flat |
| 12 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 that | acl:relcl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 discovered | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 discovered | aux |
| 15 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 imagined | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 art | det |
| 17 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 discovered | obj |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 making | mark |
| 19 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 art | acl |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 making | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 morning | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 heard | nsubj |
| 23 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 tones | det |
| 25 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 heard | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 psalm | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 psalm | det |
| 28 | psalm | psalm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tones | nmod |
| 29 | under | under | ADP | _ | 33 nest | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 stork | det |
| 31 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 nest | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 stork | case |
| 33 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heard | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 walls | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 walls | cc |
| 36 | within | within | ADP | _ | 39 walls | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 walls | det |
| 38 | crumbling | crumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 walls | amod |
| 39 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 nest | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | past | Waldemar | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | discover | past · perfect | kind | the art | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | the art not said here | gold | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gold=Product | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | I | the tones of a psalm | the stork's nest and the crumbling walls | morning | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tone=Stimulus | ||
| 5 | crumble | gerund | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | intonate | a psalm | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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