Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 119

"Do you remember," said the canary, "the pretty maidens who used to dance in the tents that were spread out beneath the sweet blossoms?

Who acts: you, canary, pretty maidens · What happens: remember, say, use, dance, spread out · To what, where: tents, sweet blossoms · 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 (you, canary, pretty maidens), 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	_	4 remember	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 remember	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 remember	nsubj
4	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 remember	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 remember	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 canary	det
9	canary	canary	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 maidens	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 maidens	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 maidens	det
13	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 maidens	amod
14	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 canary	appos
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 used	nsubj
16	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 maidens	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 dance	mark
18	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 used	xcomp
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 tents	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tents	det
21	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 dance	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 spread	nsubj:pass
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 spread	aux:pass
24	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 tents	acl:relcl
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 spread	compound:prt
26	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	29 blossoms	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 blossoms	det
28	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 blossoms	amod
29	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 spread	obl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	remember in a quote	present · do-support	you			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: ask	past	the canary			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	use in a quote	past	the pretty maidens			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	dance in a quote	to-infinitive	the pretty maidens not said here		the tents	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tent=Location
5	spread out in a quote	past · passive		the tents	the sweet blossoms	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme beneath blossom=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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