Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 30

The beautiful Alpine roses bloomed, and joyous, laughing Babette, was like the early spring, which makes all the birds sing of summer time and bridal days.

Who acts: beautiful Alpine roses, early spring, birds · What happens: bloom, laugh, be, make, sing · To what, where: beautiful Alpine roses, Babette

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beautiful Alpine roses, early spring, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roses	det
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 roses	amod
3	Alpine	alpine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 roses	amod
4	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 spring	nsubj
5	bloomed	bloom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 roses	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 joyous	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 joyous	cc
8	joyous	joyous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bloomed	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 laughing	punct
10	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 joyous	advcl
11	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 laughing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 roses	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 spring	cop
14	like	like	ADP	_	17 spring	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 spring	det
16	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 spring	amod
17	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 makes	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 makes	nsubj
20	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 spring	acl:relcl
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	24 sing	nsubj
24	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 makes	xcomp
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 time	case
26	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 time	compound
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sing	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 days	cc
29	bridal	bridal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 days	amod
30	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 time	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 spring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	bloom	participle		the beautiful Alpine roses not said here		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	laugh	gerund		Babette		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babette=Theme
3	is	past	the beautiful Alpine roses		like the early spring	tree rules
4	make	present	the early spring			tree rules
5	sing speech: express	present	all birds		time	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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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