Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 103

And the little girl showed everything to the boy, and the elder-tree continued to breathe forth sweet perfume, while the red flag with the white cross was streaming in the wind; it was the flag under which the old sailor had served.

Who acts: little girl, elder tree, red flag, tree, old sailor · What happens: show, continue, breathe, stream, be, serve · To what, where: everything, boy, sweet perfume, wind, flag

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little girl, elder tree, red flag, tree), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 showed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 girl	amod
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 showed	nsubj
5	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 showed	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 boy	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 showed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 continued	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 continued	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
13	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tree	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 elder	punct
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 continued	nsubj
16	continued	continue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 showed	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 breathe	mark
18	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 continued	xcomp
19	forth	forth	ADV	_	18 breathe	advmod
20	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 perfume	amod
21	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 breathe	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 streaming	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 streaming	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 flag	det
25	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 flag	amod
26	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 streaming	nsubj
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 cross	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cross	det
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cross	amod
30	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flag	nmod
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 streaming	aux
32	streaming	stream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 breathe	advcl
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 wind	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 wind	det
35	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 streaming	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 flag	punct
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 flag	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 flag	cop
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 flag	det
40	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 showed	conj
41	under	under	ADP	_	42 which	case
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 served	obl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 sailor	det
44	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 sailor	amod
45	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 served	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 served	aux
47	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	40 flag	acl:relcl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	past	the little girl	everything	the boy			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Topic to boy=Recipient
2	continue	participle	the elder tree					vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	breathe	to-infinitive	the elder tree not said here	sweet perfume			forth property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme
4	stream	past · progressive	the red flag with the white cross			the wind		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location
5	is a	past	tree	the flag				tree rules
6	serve	past · perfect	the old sailor			the flag		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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