Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 65

They greeted the earth with a kiss, and wherever they placed their feet white flowers sprung up from beneath the snow.

Who acts: backs · What happens: greet, place, spring up · To what, where: earth, feet, white flowers, snow

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 (backs), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 greeted	nsubj
2	greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 earth	det
4	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 greeted	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 kiss	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kiss	det
7	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 greeted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 placed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 placed	cc
10	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	12 placed	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 placed	nsubj
12	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 greeted	conj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 feet	nmod:poss
14	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 placed	obj
15	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 flowers	amod
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 placed	obj
17	sprung	spring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 flowers	acl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 sprung	compound:prt
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 snow	case
20	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	22 snow	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 snow	det
22	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sprung	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 greeted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	past	backs = back	the earth		with a kiss	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Theme
2	place	past	backs = back	backs's feet		wherever property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme flower=Destination
3	spring up	participle		white flowers not said here	the snow		vn appear-48.1.1 «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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