Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 92

Warm air waved the corn as it grew golden in the sun. The white northern lily spread its large green leaves over the glossy mirror of the woodland lake, and the fishes sought the shadows beneath them.

Who acts: Warm air, air, white northern lily, fishes · What happens: wave, grow, spread, seek · To what, where: corn, large green leaves, sun., shadows

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 (Warm air, air, white northern lily, fishes), 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	Warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 air	amod
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waved	nsubj
3	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 corn	det
5	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waved	obj
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 grew	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waved	advcl
9	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grew	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 sun.	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun.	det
12	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spread	obl
13	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lily	det
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lily	amod
15	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lily	amod
16	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spread	nsubj
17	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grew	conj
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 leaves	nmod:poss
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 leaves	amod
20	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 leaves	amod
21	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 spread	obj
22	over	over	ADP	_	25 mirror	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mirror	det
24	glossy	glossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 mirror	amod
25	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spread	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 lake	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lake	det
28	woodland	woodland	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lake	compound
29	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mirror	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sought	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sought	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fishes	det
33	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 sought	nsubj
34	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waved	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 shadows	det
36	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 sought	obj
37	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sought	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 waved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wave	past	Warm air	the corn			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient
2	grow	past	air			golden property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	spread	past	the white northern lily	lily's large green leaves	the sun.	over the glossy mirror of the woodland lake	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme in sun.=Destination
4	seek	past	the fishes	the shadows		beneath shadows = shadow	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme beneath they=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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