Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 71

Wherever the two children wandered, green buds burst forth on bush and tree, the grass grew higher, and the corn-fields became lovely in delicate green.

Who acts: two children, green buds, grass, corn fields · What happens: wander, burst, grow, become · To what, where: bush

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 (two children, green buds, grass, corn fields), 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	Wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	5 wandered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 children	nummod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wandered	nsubj
5	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wandered	punct
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 buds	amod
8	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 burst	nsubj
9	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wandered	ccomp
10	forth	forth	ADV	_	9 burst	advmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 bush	case
12	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burst	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tree	cc
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bush	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grew	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grass	det
17	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grew	nsubj
18	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 burst	conj
19	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 grew	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 became	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 became	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fields	det
23	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fields	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 corn	punct
25	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 became	nsubj
26	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 grew	conj
27	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 became	xcomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 green	case
29	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 green	amod
30	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lovely	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	wander	past	the two children		wherever property	tree rules
2	burst	present	green buds	bush and tree	forth property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bush=Location
3	grow	past	the grass		high property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	become	past	the corn fields		lovely property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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