Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 50

The Dryad's tree was bearing its first chestnut blossoms; the birds were twittering round them in the most beautiful sunshine.

Who acts: tree, birds · What happens: bear, twitter · To what, where: first chestnut blossoms, beautiful sunshine

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 (tree, birds), 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 Dryad	det
2	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tree	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Dryad	case
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bearing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bearing	aux
6	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 blossoms	nmod:poss
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 blossoms	amod
9	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blossoms	compound
10	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bearing	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 twittering	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 birds	det
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 twittering	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 twittering	aux
15	twittering	twitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 bearing	conj
16	round	round	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 twittering	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 sunshine	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sunshine	det
20	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	21 beautiful	advmod
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sunshine	amod
22	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 twittering	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bearing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · progressive	the Dryad's tree	tree's first chestnut blossoms					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blossom=Patient
2	twitter	past · progressive	the birds			the beautiful sunshine		round blossoms = blossom	vn animal_sounds-38 «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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