Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 78
"But the beautiful thyme of last summer, where is that? and the lilies-of-the-valley, which last year covered the earth with their bloom? and the wild apple-tree with its lovely blossoms, and all the glory of the wood, which has flourished year after year? even what may have but now sprouted forth could be with us here."
Who acts: lilies, wood · What happens: be, cover, flourish, have, sprout, bloom · To what, where: that, valley, wood, glory
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 (lilies, wood), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thyme | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 thyme | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thyme | det |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thyme | amod |
| 5 | thyme | thyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 summer | case |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 summer | amod |
| 8 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thyme | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 that | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 that | advmod |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 that | cop |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 thyme | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 that | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 72 here | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lilies | det |
| 16 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 72 here | nsubj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 valley | punct |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 valley | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 of | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 valley | det |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 the | punct |
| 22 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lilies | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 covered | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 covered | obj |
| 25 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 year | amod |
| 26 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 covered | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 valley | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 earth | det |
| 29 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 covered | obj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 bloom | case |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 bloom | nmod:poss |
| 32 | bloom | bloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 earth | nmod |
| 33 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 39 tree | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 tree | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 tree | det |
| 36 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 tree | amod |
| 37 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 tree | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 apple | punct |
| 39 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 covered | parataxis |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 blossoms | case |
| 41 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 blossoms | nmod:poss |
| 42 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 blossoms | amod |
| 43 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 tree | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 glory | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 glory | cc |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 glory | det:predet |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 glory | det |
| 48 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 tree | conj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 wood | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 wood | det |
| 51 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 glory | nmod |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 flourished | punct |
| 53 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 55 flourished | nsubj:pass |
| 54 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 55 flourished | aux |
| 55 | flourished | flourish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 51 wood | acl:relcl |
| 56 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 flourished | obl:unmarked |
| 57 | after | after | ADP | _ | 58 year | case |
| 58 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 flourished | obl |
| 59 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 48 glory | punct |
| 60 | even | even | ADV | _ | 61 what | advmod |
| 61 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 63 have | obj |
| 62 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 63 have | aux |
| 63 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 48 glory | parataxis |
| 64 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 66 sprouted | cc |
| 65 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 66 sprouted | advmod |
| 66 | sprouted | sprout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 63 have | conj |
| 67 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 66 sprouted | advmod |
| 68 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 71 us | aux |
| 69 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 71 us | cop |
| 70 | with | with | ADP | _ | 71 us | case |
| 71 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 lilies | nmod |
| 72 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 that | conj |
| 73 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thyme | punct |
| 74 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thyme | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cover in a quote | past | the valley | year | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flourish in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the wood | year | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | may | all glory of the wood | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | |||||
| 5 | sprout in a quote | participle | now | forth property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | could | with us | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | bloom in a quote | lilies = lily | nom bloom «process intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | glory in a quote | the wood | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=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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