Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 58
In the bushes burnt an open fire, throwing a red twilight over the quiet huts of branches, into which the sounds of music penetrated--an ear tickling, intoxicating music, that sent the blood coursing through the veins.
Who acts: sounds, that, blood · What happens: burnt, throw, penetrate, send, course · To what, where: open fire, bushes, red twilight, quiet huts, ear tickling, blood
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sounds, that, blood), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 bushes | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bushes | det |
| 3 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 burnt | obl |
| 4 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fire | det |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fire | amod |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burnt | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 throwing | punct |
| 9 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 burnt | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 twilight | det |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 twilight | amod |
| 12 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 throwing | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 huts | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 huts | det |
| 15 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 huts | amod |
| 16 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 throwing | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 branches | case |
| 18 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 huts | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 penetrated | punct |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 penetrated | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sounds | det |
| 23 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 penetrated | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 music | case |
| 25 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sounds | nmod |
| 26 | penetrated | penetrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 burnt | conj |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 tickling | punct |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 tickling | det |
| 29 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tickling | compound |
| 30 | tickling | tickling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 penetrated | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 music | punct |
| 32 | intoxicating | intoxicating | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 music | amod |
| 33 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tickling | appos |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sent | punct |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 sent | nsubj |
| 36 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 tickling | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 blood | det |
| 38 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sent | obj |
| 39 | coursing | course | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 blood | acl |
| 40 | through | through | ADP | _ | 42 veins | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 veins | det |
| 42 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 coursing | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 burnt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnt | past | a open fire | the bushes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | throw | gerund | a red twilight | the quiet huts of branches | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent twilight=Theme over hut=Destination | ||||
| 3 | penetrate | participle | the sounds of music | a ear tickling | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | send | past | that | the blood | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme | ||||
| 5 | course | gerund | the blood not said here | the veins | 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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