Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 64

How the cry resounded over field and meadow, and through the dark-brown woods, where the fresh green moss still gleamed on the trunks of the trees, and from the south came the two first storks flying through the air, and on the back of each sat a lovely little child, a boy and a girl.

Who acts: cry, two first storks · What happens: resound, gleam, come, fly, sit · To what, where: field, fresh green moss, trunks, two first storks, south, air

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 (cry, two first storks), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 resounded	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cry	det
3	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 resounded	nsubj
4	resounded	resound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 came	advcl
5	over	over	ADP	_	6 field	case
6	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 resounded	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 meadow	cc
8	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 field	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 woods	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 woods	cc
11	through	through	ADP	_	16 woods	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woods	det
13	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 brown	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 dark	punct
15	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woods	amod
16	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 resounded	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gleamed	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 gleamed	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 moss	det
20	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 moss	amod
21	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 moss	amod
22	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gleamed	nsubj:pass
23	still	still	ADV	_	24 gleamed	advmod
24	gleamed	gleam	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 woods	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 trunks	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 trunks	det
27	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 gleamed	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 trees	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 trees	det
30	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 trunks	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 came	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 came	cc
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 south	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 south	det
35	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 came	obl
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 storks	det
38	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 storks	nummod
39	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	40 storks	amod
40	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 came	obj
41	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	40 storks	acl
42	through	through	ADP	_	44 air	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 air	det
44	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 flying	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 sat	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 sat	cc
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 back	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 back	det
49	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 sat	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 each	case
51	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	49 back	nmod
52	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 came	conj
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 child	det
54	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 child	amod
55	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 child	amod
56	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 sat	obj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 boy	punct
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 boy	det
59	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 child	appos
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 girl	cc
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 girl	det
62	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 boy	conj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resound	past	the cry		field and meadow		through the brown woods	vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over field=Location
2	gleam	participle · passive		the fresh green moss	the trunks of the trees	still		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
3	come	past		the two first storks	the south			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stork=Theme
4	fly	gerund	the two first storks not said here		the air			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location
5	sit	past		a lovely little child	the back of each			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent child=Theme on back=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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