Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 19

The sun is shining on the gilt knob of the tower, little wooded islands lie like bouquets on the water, and wild swans are swimming round them.

Who acts: sun, little wooded islands, wild swans · What happens: shine, wood, lie, swim · To what, where: gilt knob

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, little wooded islands, wild swans), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shining	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shining	aux
4	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 knob	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 knob	det
7	gilt	gilt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 knob	amod
8	knob	knob	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shining	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 tower	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tower	det
11	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knob	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lie	punct
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 islands	amod
14	wooded	wood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 islands	amod
15	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lie	nsubj
16	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shining	parataxis
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 bouquets	case
18	bouquets	bouquet	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lie	obl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 water	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 water	det
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bouquets	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 swimming	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 swimming	cc
24	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 swans	amod
25	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 swimming	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 swimming	aux
27	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 lie	advcl
28	round	round	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 swimming	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shining	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	shine	present · progressive	the sun	the gilt knob of the tower		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on knob=Location
2	wood	participle				tree rules
3	lie	present	little wooded islands		like bouquets on the water	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	swim	present · progressive	wild swans		round islands = island	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round they=Trajectory

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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