Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 84
They kissed each other, and were betrothed; and in the same moment the buds of the trees unfolded, and when the sun rose, the forest was green.
Who acts: violets, buds, forest · What happens: kiss, betroth, unfold, rise, be · To what, where: each, trees
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 (violets, buds, forest), 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 kissed | nsubj |
| 2 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 2 kissed | obj |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 each | fixed |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 betrothed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 betrothed | cc |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 betrothed | aux:pass |
| 8 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 kissed | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 rose | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 rose | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 moment | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 moment | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 moment | amod |
| 14 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rose | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 buds | det |
| 16 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 rose | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 trees | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 trees | det |
| 19 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 buds | nmod |
| 20 | unfolded | unfold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 trees | acl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 rose | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 rose | cc |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 rose | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sun | det |
| 25 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rose | nsubj |
| 26 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 kissed | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 green | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 forest | det |
| 29 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 green | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 green | cop |
| 31 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 rose | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | violets = violet | each | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | betroth | past · passive | violets = violet not said here | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)» | |||||
| 3 | unfold | participle | the trees not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | rise | past | the buds of the trees | moment | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the forest | green property | tree rules |
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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