Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 47

His mighty summits was crowned with spreading fresh green foliage; the sunbeams played among the leaves and branches, and the air was full of fragrance from herb and blossom; painted butterflies chased each other; the summer flies danced around him, as if the world had been created merely for them to dance and be merry in.

Who acts: sunbeams, air, painted butterflies, summer flies, flies · What happens: crown, spread, play, be, paint, chase · To what, where: mighty summits, fresh green foliage, herb, each, world

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 (sunbeams, air, painted butterflies, summer flies), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 summits	nmod:poss
2	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 summits	amod
3	summits	summit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 crowned	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crowned	aux:pass
5	crowned	crown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	SCONJ	_	7 spreading	mark
7	spreading	spread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 crowned	advcl
8	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 foliage	amod
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 foliage	amod
10	foliage	foliage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spreading	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 played	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sunbeams	det
13	sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 played	nsubj
14	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crowned	parataxis
15	among	among	ADP	_	17 leaves	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 leaves	det
17	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 played	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 branches	cc
19	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 leaves	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 full	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 full	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 air	det
23	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 full	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 full	cop
25	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 played	conj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 fragrance	case
27	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 full	obl
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 herb	case
29	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 full	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 blossom	cc
31	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 herb	conj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 butterflies	punct
33	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 butterflies	amod
34	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 crowned	obl
35	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 butterflies	acl
36	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	35 chased	obj
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 each	fixed
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 danced	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 flies	det
40	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 flies	compound
41	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 danced	nsubj
42	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crowned	parataxis
43	around	around	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 danced	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 created	punct
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 created	mark
47	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 created	mark
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 world	det
49	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 created	nsubj:pass
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 created	aux
51	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	52 created	aux:pass
52	created	create	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 danced	conj
53	merely	merely	ADV	_	52 created	advmod
54	for	for	SCONJ	_	57 dance	mark
55	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 dance	nsubj
56	to	to	PART	_	57 dance	mark
57	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 created	advcl
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 merry	cc
59	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	60 merry	cop
60	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 dance	conj
61	in	in	ADP	_	60 merry	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 crowned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	crown	past · passive		cuckoo's mighty summits		painted butterflies obl	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	spread	gerund		fresh green foliage			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location foliage=Theme
3	play	past	the sunbeams			among the leaves and branches	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the air		herb and blossom	of fragrance; full property	tree rules
5	paint	participle					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	chase	participle	painted butterflies not said here	each			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme
7	dance	past	the summer flies			around cuckoo	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around he=Location
8	create a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		the world		merely property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
9	dance	to-infinitive	flies = fly				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	is	infinitive	flies = fly not said here			merry property	tree rules

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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