Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 133

"O my warm, blooming fatherland," sang the canary bird, "I will sing of thy dark-green trees and thy quiet streams, where the bending branches kiss the clear, smooth water.

Who acts: canary bird, bending branches · What happens: bloom, sing, kiss · To what, where: warm blooming fatherland, clear smooth water · 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 bird, bending branches), 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	_	7 fatherland	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	7 fatherland	discourse
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fatherland	nmod:poss
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fatherland	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blooming	punct
6	blooming	bloom	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 fatherland	amod
7	fatherland	fatherland	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sang	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fatherland	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 sang	punct
10	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bird	det
12	canary	canary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bird	amod
13	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sang	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sing	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 sing	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 sing	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 sing	aux
18	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sang	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	24 trees	case
20	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 trees	nmod:poss
21	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 green	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 dark	punct
23	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 trees	amod
24	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sing	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 streams	cc
26	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 streams	nmod:poss
27	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 streams	amod
28	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 trees	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 kiss	punct
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 kiss	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 branches	det
32	bending	bending	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 branches	compound
33	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 kiss	nsubj
34	kiss	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 trees	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 water	det
36	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 water	amod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 clear	punct
38	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 water	amod
39	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 kiss	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bloom in a quote	gerund				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	past	the canary bird	my warm blooming fatherland		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	sing speech: express in a quote	future	the canary bird = bird		of thy green trees and thy quiet streams	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
4	kiss in a quote	present	the bending branches	the clear smooth water		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Co-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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