Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 53
He saw lovers meet in quiet happiness near him in the moonshine, and carve the initials of their names in the grayish-green bark on his trunk.
Who acts: cuckoo, lovers · What happens: see, meet, carve, initial, name · To what, where: quiet happiness, initials, names, green bark · 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 (cuckoo, lovers), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 meet | nsubj |
| 4 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | ccomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 happiness | case |
| 6 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 happiness | amod |
| 7 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meet | obl |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 happiness | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 moonshine | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 moonshine | det |
| 12 | moonshine | moonshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meet | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carve | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 carve | cc |
| 15 | carve | carve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 meet | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 initials | det |
| 17 | initials | initial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 carve | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 names | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 names | nmod:poss |
| 20 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 initials | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 bark | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bark | det |
| 23 | grayish | grayish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 green | amod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 grayish | punct |
| 25 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bark | amod |
| 26 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 names | nmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 trunk | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 29 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bark | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | cuckoo | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | meet | present | lovers | quiet happiness near cuckoo | in the moonshine | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | carve | infinitive | lovers not said here | the initials of lovers's names in the green bark on cuckoo's trunk | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent initial=Theme | ||||
| 4 | initial | lovers's names in the green bark on cuckoo's trunk | nom initial «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | name | lovers = lover | the green bark on cuckoo's trunk | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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