Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 196
But over the grave fresh roses bloom, the nightingale sings, and the organ sounds and there still lives a remembrance of old grandmother, with the loving, gentle eyes that always looked young.
Who acts: grave fresh roses, nightingale, organ, loving gentle eyes · What happens: bloom, sing, sound, live, look, remember · To what, where: remembrance, old grandmother
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grave fresh roses, nightingale, organ, loving gentle eyes), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 sings | cc |
| 2 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 7 bloom | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 roses | det |
| 4 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 roses | amod |
| 5 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 roses | amod |
| 6 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bloom | nsubj |
| 7 | bloom | bloom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sings | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bloom | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 nightingale | det |
| 10 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sings | nsubj |
| 11 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sounds | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sounds | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 organ | det |
| 15 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sounds | nsubj |
| 16 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sings | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lives | cc |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 lives | expl |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 lives | advmod |
| 20 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sounds | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 remembrance | det |
| 22 | remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lives | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 grandmother | case |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 grandmother | amod |
| 25 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 remembrance | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 eyes | punct |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 eyes | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 eyes | det |
| 29 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 eyes | amod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 loving | punct |
| 31 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 eyes | amod |
| 32 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sounds | conj |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 looked | nsubj |
| 34 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 35 looked | advmod |
| 35 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 36 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 looked | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloom | present | the grave fresh roses | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | present | the nightingale | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sound | present | the organ | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | live | present | the organ not said here | a remembrance of old grandmother | there | still | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme remembrance=Location | ||
| 5 | look | past | the loving gentle eyes | always, young property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | remember | old grandmother | nom remembrance «cognition 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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