Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 21

Its wings could sustain it no longer, and gently and slowly it glided down upon the soft waving blades of grass, nodded its little head as well as it could nod, and slept peacefully and sweetly.

Who acts: wings, sun · What happens: sustain, glide down, nod, sleep · To what, where: sun, soft waving blades, little head

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wings, sun), 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	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wings	nmod:poss
2	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sustain	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sustain	aux
4	sustain	sustain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sustain	obj
6	no	no	ADV	_	7 longer	advmod
7	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 sustain	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gently	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gently	cc
10	gently	gently	ADV	_	4 sustain	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 glided	cc
12	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	14 glided	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 glided	nsubj
14	glided	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gently	conj
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 glided	advmod
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	20 blades	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 blades	det
18	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 blades	amod
19	waving	waving	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 blades	compound
20	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 glided	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 grass	case
22	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 blades	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 nodded	punct
24	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 glided	conj
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 head	amod
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 nodded	obj
28	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	24 nodded	advmod
29	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 as	fixed
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 nod	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 nod	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 nod	aux
33	nod	nod	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 nodded	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 slept	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 slept	cc
36	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 glided	conj
37	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	36 slept	advmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 sweetly	cc
39	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	37 peacefully	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sustain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sustain	could	sun's wings	sun		gently, long property	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	glide down	past	sun		the soft waving blades of grass	down, slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon blade=Trajectory
3	nod	past	sun not said here	sun's little head			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	nod	could	sun				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sleep	past	sun not said here			peacefully property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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