Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 72
Every native of the wood, even to the brown and feathery rushes, grew with the rest, while the birds ascended with the melody of song.
Who acts: native, birds · What happens: grow, ascend
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 (native, 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 native | det |
| 2 | native | native | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 wood | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wood | det |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 native | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rushes | punct |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 rushes | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 rushes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rushes | det |
| 10 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rushes | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 feathery | cc |
| 12 | feathery | feathery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 brown | conj |
| 13 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 native | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 native | punct |
| 15 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 rest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rest | det |
| 18 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grew | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ascended | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 ascended | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 birds | det |
| 22 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ascended | nsubj |
| 23 | ascended | ascend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 grew | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 melody | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 melody | det |
| 26 | melody | melody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ascended | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 song | case |
| 28 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 melody | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | every native of the wood and the brown rushes | with the rest | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ascend | participle | the birds | with the melody of song | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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