Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 119
The rose-bushes gleamed with scarlet hips, and the branches of the elder-trees hung down with the weight of the full, dark berries.
What happens: gleam, hang down · To what, where: rose bushes, elder 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: 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 | 4 bushes | det |
| 2 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bushes | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
| 4 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bushes | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hips | case |
| 7 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hips | compound |
| 8 | hips | hip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gleamed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 branches | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 branches | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 branches | det |
| 12 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bushes | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 trees | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trees | det |
| 15 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 trees | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 elder | punct |
| 17 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 branches | nmod |
| 18 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 trees | acl |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 hung | compound:prt |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 weight | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 weight | det |
| 22 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hung | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 berries | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 berries | det |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 berries | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 full | punct |
| 27 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 berries | amod |
| 28 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 weight | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bushes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | participle | the rose bushes and the branches of the elder trees not said here | with scarlet hips | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with hip=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hang down | participle | the elder trees not said here | with the weight of the full dark berries | 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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