Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 110
The hop, hanging in clusters, filled the air with sweet fragrance, and beneath the hazel-bushes, where the nuts hung in great bunches, rested a man and a woman--Summer and his grave consort.
Who acts: hop, nuts · What happens: hang, fill, rest · To what, where: clusters, air, great bunches, man, hazel bushes
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 (hop, nuts), 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 hop | det |
| 2 | hop | hop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filled | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hanging | punct |
| 4 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 hop | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 clusters | case |
| 6 | clusters | cluster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hanging | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hop | punct |
| 8 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filled | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 fragrance | case |
| 12 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fragrance | amod |
| 13 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filled | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 rested | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 rested | cc |
| 16 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 20 bushes | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bushes | det |
| 18 | hazel | hazel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bushes | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 hazel | punct |
| 20 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 rested | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hung | punct |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 hung | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 nuts | det |
| 24 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hung | nsubj |
| 25 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bushes | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 bunches | case |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bunches | amod |
| 28 | bunches | bunch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hung | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bushes | punct |
| 30 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 filled | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 man | det |
| 32 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rested | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 woman | cc |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 woman | det |
| 35 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 man | conj |
| 36 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 Summer | punct |
| 37 | Summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 man | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 consort | cc |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 consort | nmod:poss |
| 40 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 consort | amod |
| 41 | consort | consort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 man | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | gerund | the hop not said here | clusters | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cluster=Location | ||||
| 2 | fill | past | the hop | the air | with sweet fragrance | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with fragrance=Instrument | |||
| 3 | hang | past | the nuts | great bunches | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bunch=Location | ||||
| 4 | rest | past | the hop not said here | a man and a woman and Summer and hop's grave consort | the hazel bushes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent man=Theme beneath bush=Location |
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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