Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 111

The little girl with the blue eyes and elder-blossoms in her hair was sitting high up in the tree, and nodded to them, saying, "To-day is the golden wedding!"

Who acts: little girl · What happens: sit, nod, say, be · To what, where: tree, blossoms, golden wedding · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girl	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 girl	amod
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sitting	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eyes	det
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eyes	amod
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 girl	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 blossoms	cc
9	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blossoms	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 elder	punct
11	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eyes	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hair	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hair	nmod:poss
14	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blossoms	nmod
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sitting	aux
16	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
17	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 up	advmod
18	up	up	ADV	_	16 sitting	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 tree	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tree	det
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sitting	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 nodded	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 nodded	cc
24	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sitting	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 nodded	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 saying	punct
28	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 sitting	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 wedding	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 wedding	punct
31	To	to	ADP	_	33 day	case
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 To	punct
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 wedding	obl
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 wedding	cop
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 wedding	det
36	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 wedding	amod
37	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 saying	ccomp
38	!	!	PUNCT	_	37 wedding	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 wedding	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit	past · progressive	the little girl with the blue eyes and elder blossoms in girl's hair			the tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location
2	nod	past			blossoms = blossom			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
3	say speech: express	gerund	the little girl with the blue eyes and elder blossoms in girl's hair not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	present		the golden wedding			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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