Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 92
Hill and valley were blooming in luxuriant beauty, and his thoughts were youthful dreams, in which old age or death were out of the question.
Who acts: Hill, thoughts, old age, valley · What happens: bloom, be, think · To what, where: luxuriant beauty, youthful dreams, question
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hill, thoughts, old age, valley), 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 | Hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blooming | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 valley | cc |
| 3 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hill | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blooming | aux |
| 5 | blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 beauty | case |
| 7 | luxuriant | luxuriant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beauty | amod |
| 8 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blooming | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dreams | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dreams | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 12 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dreams | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dreams | cop |
| 14 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dreams | amod |
| 15 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 blooming | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 question | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 question | obl |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 age | amod |
| 20 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 question | nsubj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 death | cc |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 age | conj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 question | cop |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 question | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 question | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 question | det |
| 27 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blooming | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 blooming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloom | past · progressive | Hill and valley | luxuriant beauty | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in beauty=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | valley's thoughts | youthful dreams | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | old age or death | the question | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think | valley | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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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