Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 83
The sweet, fresh air; the soft radiance of the moon, as its light spread over the earth; the fragrance which exhaled from bush and tree, made it feel happy as it sat there clothed in its fresh, bright plumage.
Who acts: light, fragrance, sweet fresh air, moon · What happens: spread, exhale, make, feel, sit, clothe · To what, where: earth, bush, light
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, fragrance, sweet fresh air, moon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 air | det |
| 2 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 air | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sweet | punct |
| 4 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 air | amod |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | nsubj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 radiance | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 radiance | det |
| 8 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 radiance | amod |
| 9 | radiance | radiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 air | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 moon | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 moon | det |
| 12 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 radiance | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spread | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 spread | mark |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 light | nmod:poss |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spread | nsubj |
| 17 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 radiance | conj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 earth | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 earth | det |
| 20 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spread | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 fragrance | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fragrance | det |
| 23 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 radiance | conj |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 exhaled | nsubj |
| 25 | exhaled | exhale | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fragrance | acl:relcl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 bush | case |
| 27 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 exhaled | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 tree | cc |
| 29 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bush | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 air | punct |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 made | obj |
| 33 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 made | xcomp |
| 34 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 feel | xcomp |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 sat | mark |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 sat | nsubj |
| 37 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 made | advcl |
| 38 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 sat | advmod |
| 39 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 sat | xcomp |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 plumage | case |
| 41 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 plumage | nmod:poss |
| 42 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 plumage | amod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 fresh | punct |
| 44 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 plumage | amod |
| 45 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 clothed | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | moon's light | the earth | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over earth=Location | ||||
| 2 | exhale | past | the fragrance | bush and tree | vn exhale-40.1.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the sweet fresh air and the soft radiance of the moon and the fragrance | light | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feel | infinitive | light not said here | happy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | sit | past | light | there | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | clothe | participle | light not said here | in light's fresh bright plumage | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in plumage=Theme | ||||
| 7 | radiate | the moon | nom radiance «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 8 | light | moon | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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