Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 105
Sweet and pleasant was the fragrance wafted from the clover-field, where the bees swarmed round the ruined tower, the bramble twined itself over the old altar, which, washed by the rain, glittered in the sunshine; and thither flew the queen bee with her swarm, and prepared wax and honey.
Who acts: Sweet fragrance, bees, bramble, rain · What happens: be, waft, swarm, ruin, twine, wash · To what, where: Sweet fragrance, clover field, bramble, old altar, rain, sunshine
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sweet fragrance, bees, bramble, rain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fragrance | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 pleasant | cc |
| 3 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Sweet | conj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fragrance | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fragrance | det |
| 6 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wafted | nsubj |
| 7 | wafted | waft | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 field | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 field | det |
| 10 | clover | clover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 field | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 clover | punct |
| 12 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wafted | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 swarmed | punct |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 swarmed | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bees | det |
| 16 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 swarmed | nsubj |
| 17 | swarmed | swarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 field | acl:relcl |
| 18 | round | round | ADP | _ | 21 tower | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tower | det |
| 20 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 tower | amod |
| 21 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swarmed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 twined | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bramble | det |
| 24 | bramble | bramble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 twined | nsubj |
| 25 | twined | twine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 tower | acl:relcl |
| 26 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 twined | obj |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 30 altar | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 altar | det |
| 29 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 altar | amod |
| 30 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 twined | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 washed | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 washed | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 washed | punct |
| 34 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 altar | acl:relcl |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 rain | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 rain | det |
| 37 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 washed | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 glittered | punct |
| 39 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 rain | acl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 sunshine | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 sunshine | det |
| 42 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 glittered | obl |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 flew | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 flew | cc |
| 45 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 46 flew | advmod |
| 46 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wafted | conj |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 bee | det |
| 48 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 bee | compound |
| 49 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 flew | obj |
| 50 | with | with | ADP | _ | 52 swarm | case |
| 51 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 swarm | nmod:poss |
| 52 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 bee | nmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 wax | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 wax | cc |
| 55 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 wax | amod |
| 56 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 flew | obl |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 honey | cc |
| 58 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 wax | conj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wafted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Sweet fragrance | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | waft | past | the Sweet fragrance | the clover field | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | swarm | participle | the bees | round the ruined tower | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 4 | ruin | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | twine | past | the bramble | bramble | the old altar | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent itself=Theme over altar=Destination | |||
| 6 | wash | participle · passive | the rain | the old altar | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 7 | glitter | participle | the rain not said here | the sunshine | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location | ||||
| 8 | fly | past | the Sweet fragrance not said here | the queen bee | with fragrance's swarm; prepared wax and honey obl; thither property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bee=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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