Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 23

Here he could plainly hear them say, "Farewell, farewell;" and he felt that the rose had been placed on the young man's breast.

Who acts: elf, roses · What happens: hear, say, feel, place · To what, where: roses, rose, breast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elf, roses), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 hear	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hear	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
4	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	5 hear	advmod
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hear	obj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hear	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Farewell	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 Farewell	punct
10	Farewell	farewell	INTJ	_	7 say	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 farewell	punct
12	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Farewell	appos
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 felt	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 ;	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 felt	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 felt	nsubj
17	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 placed	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rose	det
20	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 placed	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 placed	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 placed	aux:pass
23	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 felt	advcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	29 breast	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 man	det
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 breast	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 man	case
29	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 placed	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	could	elf	roses = rose	here	plainly property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	roses = rose not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent farewell=Topic
3	feel	past	elf				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	place	past · perfect · passive		the rose	the young man's breast		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on breast=Destination

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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