Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 2

The sun shone, and the soft air fluttered its leaves, and the little peasant children passed by, prattling merrily, but the fir-tree heeded them not.

Who acts: sun, soft air, fir tree · What happens: shine, flutter, pass by, prattle, not heed · To what, where: leaves, little peasant children, sun

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, soft air, fir tree), 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	3 shone	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fluttered	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fluttered	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
7	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 air	amod
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fluttered	nsubj
9	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	conj
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 leaves	nmod:poss
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fluttered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 passed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 passed	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 children	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 children	amod
16	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 children	amod
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 passed	nsubj:pass
18	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shone	conj
19	by	by	ADP	_	18 passed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 prattling	punct
21	prattling	prattle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 passed	advcl
22	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	21 prattling	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 heeded	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 heeded	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tree	det
26	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tree	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 fir	punct
28	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 heeded	nsubj
29	heeded	heed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 heeded	obj
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 heeded	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the sun			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	flutter	past	the soft air	air's leaves		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme
3	pass by	participle · passive		the little peasant children		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
4	prattle speech: other	gerund			merrily property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not heed	past	the fir tree	sun		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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