Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 5

On many a warm summer, the Ephemera, the flies that exist for only a day, had fluttered about the old oak, enjoyed life and felt happy and if, for a moment, one of the tiny creatures rested on one of his large fresh leaves, the tree would always say, "Poor little creature! your whole life consists only of a single day.

Who acts: flies, tree, whole life · What happens: exist, flutter, enjoy, feel, rest, say · To what, where: flies, life, tiny creatures · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (flies, tree, whole life), 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	On	on	ADP	_	5 summer	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 summer	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 summer	det
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 summer	amod
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flies	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 summer	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Ephemera	det
8	Ephemera	Ephemera	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 flies	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flies	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flies	det
11	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 exist	nsubj
13	exist	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 flies	acl:relcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 day	case
15	only	only	ADV	_	17 day	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 exist	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fluttered	punct
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 fluttered	aux
20	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 flies	acl
21	about	about	ADP	_	24 oak	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 oak	det
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 oak	amod
24	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fluttered	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 enjoyed	punct
26	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 flies	parataxis
27	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 enjoyed	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 felt	cc
29	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 enjoyed	conj
30	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 felt	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 if	cc
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	56 say	mark
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 if	punct
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 moment	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 moment	det
36	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 say	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 one	punct
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 moment	appos
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 creatures	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 creatures	det
41	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 creatures	amod
42	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 one	nmod
43	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 creatures	acl
44	on	on	ADP	_	45 one	case
45	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 rested	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	50 leaves	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 leaves	nmod:poss
48	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 leaves	amod
49	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 leaves	amod
50	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 one	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 moment	punct
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 tree	det
53	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 say	nsubj
54	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 say	aux
55	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	56 say	advmod
56	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 happy	advcl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 creature	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	61 creature	punct
59	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 creature	amod
60	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 creature	amod
61	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 say	ccomp
62	!	!	PUNCT	_	61 creature	punct
63	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 life	nmod:poss
64	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 life	amod
65	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 consists	nsubj
66	consists	consist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 creature	parataxis
67	only	only	ADV	_	71 day	advmod
68	of	of	ADP	_	71 day	case
69	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	71 day	det
70	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 day	amod
71	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 consists	obl
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 flies	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	exist	present	the flies		day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	flutter	past · perfect		the flies not said here		about the old oak	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about oak=Location
3	enjoy	past		life			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus
4	feel	past				happy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	rest	participle		the tiny creatures not said here		on one of Ephemera's large fresh leaves	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on one=Location
6	say speech: express a condition, not said to happen	would	the tree		moment	always property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	consist in a quote	present	your whole life		day		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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