Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 111

"I flew beneath green palm-trees, and amidst the blooming almond-trees," sang the canary. "

Who acts: canary · What happens: fly, bloom, sing · To what, where: green palm trees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (canary), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	8 trees	case
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 trees	amod
6	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trees	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 palm	punct
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flew	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sang	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sang	cc
11	amidst	amidst	ADP	_	16 trees	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trees	det
13	blooming	bloom	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 trees	amod
14	almond	almond	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 trees	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 almond	punct
16	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sang	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 trees	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 trees	punct
19	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 canary	det
21	canary	canary	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sang	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	fly in a quote	past	the canary = canary	green palm trees		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent beneath tree=Location
2	bloom in a quote	gerund				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sing speech: express	past	the canary		amidst the blooming almond trees	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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