Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 122

Remembrance nodded, and the two old people, with the golden crowns on their heads, sat in the glowing evening sun. They closed their eyes and--and--

Who acts: Remembrance, blossoms · What happens: nod, sit, glow, close · To what, where: two old people, glowing evening sun., eyes

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 (Remembrance, blossoms), 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	Remembrance	Remembrance	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 nodded	nsubj
2	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 people	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 people	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 people	nummod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 nodded	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 crowns	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 crowns	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 crowns	det
12	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 crowns	amod
13	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 nodded	obl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 heads	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heads	nmod:poss
16	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 crowns	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 nodded	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 sun.	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sun.	det
21	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 sun.	amod
22	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sun.	compound
23	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
24	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 closed	nsubj
25	closed	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sun.	acl:relcl
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 eyes	nmod:poss
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 closed	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sat	cc
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	28 and	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	2 nodded	cc
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 and	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	nod	past	Remembrance	the two old people		with the golden crowns on people's heads	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past	Remembrance not said here		the glowing evening sun.		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun.=Location
3	glow	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	close	past	blossoms = blossom	blossoms's eyes			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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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