Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 64

It spoke of the glory of its birth; it told of the strength of the sunlight, which had caused its delicate leaves to expand, and given to it such sweet perfume.

Who acts: bench, strength, delicate leaves, birth · What happens: speak, tell, cause, expand, give, glory · To what, where: delicate leaves, such sweet perfume, bench · 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 (bench, strength, delicate leaves, birth), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 glory	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 glory	det
5	glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 birth	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 birth	nmod:poss
8	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 glory	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spoke	parataxis
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 strength	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 strength	det
14	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 sunlight	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sunlight	det
17	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 strength	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 caused	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 caused	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 caused	aux
21	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 strength	acl:relcl
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 leaves	nmod:poss
23	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 leaves	amod
24	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 caused	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 expand	mark
26	expand	expand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 caused	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 given	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 given	cc
29	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 told	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 given	obl
32	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 perfume	amod
33	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 perfume	amod
34	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 given	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	bench			of the glory of bench's birth	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	bench			of the strength of the sunlight	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cause	past · perfect	the strength of the sunlight	bench's delicate leaves			tree rules
4	expand	to-infinitive	bench's delicate leaves not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	give	participle	bench not said here	such sweet perfume	bench		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme to it=Recipient
6	glory		bench's birth				nom glory «state intransitive»: of=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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