Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 109

And days and weeks passed, the bright scythes of the reapers glittered in the corn-fields, the branches of the apple-trees bent low, heavy with the red and golden fruit.

Who acts: days, bright scythes · What happens: pass, glitter, bend · To what, where: corn fields, apple trees

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 (days, bright scythes), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 passed	cc
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 passed	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 weeks	cc
4	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 days	conj
5	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 glittered	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 scythes	det
8	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 scythes	amod
9	scythes	scythe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 glittered	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 reapers	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 reapers	det
12	reapers	reaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 scythes	nmod
13	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 fields	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fields	det
16	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fields	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 corn	punct
18	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 glittered	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 branches	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 branches	det
21	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fields	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	26 trees	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 trees	det
24	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 trees	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 apple	punct
26	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 branches	nmod
27	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 trees	acl
28	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 bent	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 heavy	punct
30	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 glittered	advcl
31	with	with	ADP	_	36 fruit	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fruit	det
33	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 fruit	amod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 golden	cc
35	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 red	conj
36	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 heavy	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	days and weeks				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	glitter	past	the bright scythes of the reapers		the corn fields and the branches of the apple trees		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location
3	bend	participle		the apple trees not said here		low property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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