Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 28

In the forest the wonderful plant still continued to bloom till it grew and became almost a tree, and all the birds of passage bowed themselves before it.

Who acts: wonderful plant, forest, birds · What happens: continue, bloom, grow, become, bow · To what, where: forest, tree, birds

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wonderful plant, forest, birds), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 forest	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 forest	det
3	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 continued	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 plant	det
5	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plant	amod
6	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 continued	nsubj
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 continued	advmod
8	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 bloom	mark
10	bloom	bloom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 continued	xcomp
11	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 grew	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 grew	nsubj
13	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bloom	advcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 became	cc
15	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 grew	conj
16	almost	almost	ADV	_	18 tree	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tree	det
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 became	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bowed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bowed	cc
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 birds	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 birds	det
23	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bowed	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 passage	case
25	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 birds	nmod
26	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 continued	conj
27	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 bowed	obj
28	before	before	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bowed	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	continue	past	the wonderful plant		the forest	still	vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	bloom	to-infinitive	the wonderful plant not said here				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grow	past	forest				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	become	past	forest not said here	a tree			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	bow	past	all birds of passage	birds = bird		before forest	vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic

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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