Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 35

We drank together of the waters of Parnassus, and dwelt for many years beneath the laurel roof of the hut, while, winter after winter, my mother sang her song of the stag who shed red tears.

Who acts: We, winter, stag · What happens: drink, dwell, sing, shed · To what, where: laurel roof, song, red tears

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, winter, stag), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 drank	nsubj
2	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	together	together	ADV	_	2 drank	advmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 waters	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 waters	det
6	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drank	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Parnassus	case
8	Parnassus	Parnassus	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 waters	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dwelt	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dwelt	cc
11	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 drank	parataxis
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 years	case
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 years	amod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dwelt	obl
15	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	18 roof	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 roof	det
17	laurel	laurel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 roof	compound
18	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dwelt	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 hut	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hut	det
21	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 roof	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sang	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 sang	mark
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 winter	punct
25	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sang	nsubj
26	after	after	ADP	_	27 winter	case
27	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 winter	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 mother	punct
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mother	nmod:poss
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 winter	conj
31	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dwelt	conj
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 song	nmod:poss
33	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sang	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 stag	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 stag	det
36	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 song	nmod
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 shed	nsubj
38	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 stag	acl:relcl
39	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 tears	amod
40	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 shed	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	We				of the waters of Parnassus; together property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of water=Source
2	dwell	past			the laurel roof of the hut	year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath roof=Location
3	sing speech: express	past	winter after winter and my mother	girl's song of the stag				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
4	shed	past	the stag	red tears				vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source
5	sing		the stag					nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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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