Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 58

The elder-tree smelt strongly, and the setting sun illuminated the faces of the two old people, so that they looked quite rosy; the youngest of the grandchildren danced round them, and cried merrily that there would be a feast in the evening, for they were to have hot potatoes; and the elder mother nodded in the tree and cried 'Hooray' with the others."

Who acts: tree smelt, people, youngest · What happens: illuminate, look, dance, cry, be, have · To what, where: faces, feast, hot potatoes, elder mother, Hooray

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 (tree smelt, people, youngest), 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	5 smelt	det
2	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tree	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 elder	punct
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 smelt	compound
5	smelt	smelt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 illuminated	nsubj
6	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	5 smelt	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 illuminated	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 illuminated	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
10	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sun	compound
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 illuminated	nsubj
12	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 faces	det
14	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 illuminated	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 people	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 people	det
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 people	nummod
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 people	amod
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 faces	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looked	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 looked	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 so	fixed
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 looked	nsubj
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 illuminated	conj
25	quite	quite	ADV	_	26 rosy	advmod
26	rosy	rosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 looked	xcomp
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 danced	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 youngest	det
29	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 danced	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 grandchildren	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 grandchildren	det
32	grandchildren	grandchild	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 youngest	obl
33	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 illuminated	conj
34	round	round	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 danced	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 cried	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 cried	cc
38	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 feast	csubj
39	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	38 cried	advmod
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 be	mark
41	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	43 be	expl
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 be	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 feast	cop
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 feast	det
45	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 danced	parataxis
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 evening	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 evening	det
48	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 feast	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 have	punct
50	for	for	SCONJ	_	54 have	mark
51	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 have	nsubj
52	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 have	aux
53	to	to	PART	_	54 have	mark
54	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 danced	conj
55	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 potatoes	amod
56	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 have	obj
57	;	;	PUNCT	_	61 mother	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 mother	cc
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 mother	det
60	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 mother	amod
61	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 illuminated	parataxis
62	nodded	nod	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	61 mother	acl
63	in	in	ADP	_	65 tree	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 tree	det
65	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 nodded	obl
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 cried	cc
67	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 nodded	conj
68	'	'	PUNCT	_	69 Hooray	punct
69	Hooray	Hooray	PROPN	Number=Sing	67 cried	obj
70	'	'	PUNCT	_	69 Hooray	punct
71	with	with	ADP	_	73 others	case
72	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	73 others	det
73	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 cried	obl
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	61 mother	punct
75	"	"	PUNCT	_	61 mother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	illuminate	past	the tree smelt	the faces of the two old people			vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Destination
2	look	past	people			rosy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	dance	past	the youngest			round people	vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme round they=Trajectory
4	cry speech: express	past				merrily property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	infinitive		a feast	evening		tree rules
6	have	past	people	hot potatoes			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potato=Patient
7	nod	participle		the elder mother not said here		in the tree	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in tree=Theme
8	cry speech: express	past		Hooray		with the others	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hooray=Topic

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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