Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 32

It was glorious; but most glorious of all when the old clergyman sat under the oak tree and talked of France, and of the great deeds of her sons and daughters, whose names will be mentioned with admiration through all time.

Who acts: industry, old clergyman · What happens: be, sit, talk, mention · To what, where: oak tree, names

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (industry, old clergyman), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 glorious	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 glorious	cop
3	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 glorious	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 glorious	cc
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 glorious	advmod
7	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 glorious	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 glorious	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 sat	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 clergyman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 clergyman	amod
13	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 glorious	advcl
15	under	under	ADP	_	18 tree	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tree	det
17	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tree	compound
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 talked	cc
20	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sat	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 France	case
22	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 talked	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 deeds	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 deeds	cc
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 deeds	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 deeds	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 deeds	amod
28	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sat	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 sons	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 sons	nmod:poss
31	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 deeds	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 daughters	cc
33	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sons	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 mentioned	punct
35	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	36 names	nmod:poss
36	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 mentioned	nsubj:pass
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 mentioned	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 mentioned	aux:pass
39	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 sons	acl
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 admiration	case
41	admiration	admiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 mentioned	obl
42	through	through	ADP	_	44 time	case
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 time	det
44	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 mentioned	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 glorious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	industry				glorious property	tree rules
2	be		industry not said here				of all	tree rules
3	sit	past	the old clergyman		the oak tree		of the great deeds of clergyman's sons and daughters	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
4	talk	past	the old clergyman not said here				of France	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	mention speech: other	future · passive		names		time	with admiration	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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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