Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 120

The wild chestnuts fell ripe from their dark, green shells, and in the forests the violets bloomed for the second time.

Who acts: wild chestnuts · What happens: fall, bloom · To what, where: dark green shells, forests

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 (wild chestnuts), 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	3 chestnuts	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chestnuts	amod
3	chestnuts	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fell	xcomp
6	from	from	ADP	_	11 shells	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shells	nmod:poss
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shells	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 dark	punct
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shells	amod
11	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fell	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 forests	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 forests	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 forests	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forests	det
16	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fell	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 violets	det
18	violets	violet	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 forests	conj
19	bloomed	bloom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 forests	acl
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 time	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 time	det
22	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 time	amod
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bloomed	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the wild chestnuts			chestnuts's dark green shells		in the forests and the violets; ripe property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in forest=Location
2	bloom	participle		the forests and the violets not said here			time		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=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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