Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 134

I will sing of the joy of my brothers and sisters, as their shining plumage flits among the dark leaves of the plants which grow wild by the springs."

Who acts: I, sisters, plants · What happens: sing, shine, grow, joy · To what, where: plumage flits, brothers

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 (I, sisters, plants), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sing	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	aux
3	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 joy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 joy	det
6	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sing	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 brothers	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brothers	nmod:poss
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 joy	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sisters	cc
11	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 brothers	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 shining	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 shining	mark
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 shining	nsubj
15	shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sing	conj
16	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flits	compound
17	flits	flit	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 shining	obj
18	among	among	ADP	_	21 leaves	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 leaves	det
20	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 leaves	amod
21	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 shining	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 plants	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 plants	det
24	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 leaves	nmod
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 grow	nsubj
26	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 plants	acl:relcl
27	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 grow	xcomp
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 springs	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 springs	det
30	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 grow	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sing	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	future	I			of the joy of my brothers and sisters	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	shine	gerund	sisters = sister	plumage flits		among the dark leaves of the plants	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flit=Theme
3	grow	present	the plants		spring	wild property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	joy			my brothers and sisters			nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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