Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 124

She looked at the empty nests; in one of them grew a long-stalked corn flower, in another the yellow mustard seed, as if the nest had been placed there only for its comfort and protection, and the sparrows were flying round them all.

Who acts: queen, one, sparrows, nest · What happens: look, grow, stalk, place, fly, comfort · To what, where: stalked corn flower, nest

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 (queen, one, sparrows, nest), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 nests	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nests	det
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nests	amod
6	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 one	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 grew	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 one	nmod
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 flower	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stalked	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 long	punct
16	stalked	stalk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 flower	amod
17	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flower	compound
18	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grew	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seed	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	25 seed	case
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 seed	det
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 seed	det
23	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 seed	amod
24	mustard	mustard	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seed	compound
25	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grew	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 placed	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 placed	mark
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 placed	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 nest	det
30	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 placed	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 placed	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 placed	aux:pass
33	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 grew	conj
34	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 placed	advmod
35	only	only	ADV	_	38 comfort	advmod
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 comfort	case
37	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 comfort	nmod:poss
38	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 placed	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 protection	cc
40	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 comfort	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 flying	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 flying	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 sparrows	det
44	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 flying	nsubj
45	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 flying	aux
46	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 grew	advcl
47	round	round	ADP	_	48 them	case
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 flying	obl
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 them	nmod:unmarked
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past	queen			at the empty nests	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at nest=Theme
2	grow	past	one of mists	a stalked corn flower			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme
3	stalk	participle					vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	place a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the nest	there	for nest's comfort and protection	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme
5	fly	past · progressive	the sparrows			round mists = mist	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round they=Trajectory
6	comfort		nest				nom comfort «state transitive»: poss=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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