Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 77

Many an old dame came forth from her door into the sunshine, and shuffled about with great delight, glancing at the golden flowers which glittered everywhere in the fields, as they used to do in her young days.

Who acts: Many, golden flowers, flowers · What happens: come, shuffle, glance, glitter, use, do · To what, where: door, fields

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 (Many, golden flowers, flowers), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	nsubj
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dame	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dame	amod
4	dame	dame	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	forth	forth	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 door	nmod:poss
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 sunshine	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sunshine	det
12	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shuffled	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 shuffled	cc
15	shuffled	shuffle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 came	parataxis
16	about	about	ADV	_	19 delight	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 delight	case
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 delight	amod
19	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shuffled	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 glancing	punct
21	glancing	glance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 shuffled	advcl
22	at	at	ADP	_	25 flowers	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 flowers	det
24	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 flowers	amod
25	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 glancing	obl
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 glittered	nsubj
27	glittered	glitter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 flowers	acl:relcl
28	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	27 glittered	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 fields	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fields	det
31	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 glittered	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 used	punct
33	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 used	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 used	nsubj
35	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 glancing	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 do	mark
37	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 used	xcomp
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 days	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 days	nmod:poss
40	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 days	amod
41	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 do	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Many	dame's door		into the sunshine; forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from door=Initial_Location into sunshine=Destination
2	shuffle	participle				with great delight	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with delight=Co-Patient
3	glance	gerund				at the golden flowers	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at flower=Theme
4	glitter	past	the golden flowers	the fields		everywhere property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location
5	use	past	flowers = flower				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	do	to-infinitive	flowers = flower not said here		day		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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