Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 114

There they both sat like a king and queen under the sweet-smelling tree, which looked exactly like an elder-tree, and he told his wife the story of the elder-tree mother as it had been told him when he was a little boy.

Who acts: flowers, smelling tree, snow · What happens: sit, smell, look, tell, be · To what, where: smelling tree, elder tree, story, wife, tree, snow · 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 (flowers, smelling tree, snow), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 sat	expl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
3	both	both	ADV	_	4 sat	advmod
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 king	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 queen	cc
9	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 king	conj
10	under	under	ADP	_	15 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tree	det
12	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 smelling	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 sweet	punct
14	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 tree	amod
15	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 looked	nsubj
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tree	acl:relcl
19	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	24 tree	advmod
20	like	like	ADP	_	24 tree	case
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tree	det
22	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tree	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 elder	punct
24	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looked	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 told	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 told	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	nsubj
28	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sat	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wife	nmod:poss
30	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 told	iobj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 story	det
32	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 told	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	38 mother	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 mother	det
35	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tree	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 elder	punct
37	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 mother	compound
38	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 story	nmod
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 told	mark
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 told	nsubj:pass
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 told	aux
42	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 told	aux:pass
43	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 told	ccomp
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 told	iobj
45	when	when	SCONJ	_	50 boy	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 boy	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 boy	cop
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 boy	det
49	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 boy	amod
50	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 told	advcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	flowers = flower			the smelling tree; there	like a king and queen; both property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
2	smell	gerund						vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	past	the smelling tree	a elder tree				vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Attribute
4	tell speech: assert	past	snow	the story of the tree mother	snow's wife			tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		tree	snow			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
6	is a	past	snow	a little boy				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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