Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 95

The dark-blue sea was covered with white-sailed ships, and in the barns sat old women, girls, and children picking hops into a large tub; the young ones sang songs, and the old people told fairy tales about goblins and sorcerers.

Who acts: barns, children, old people · What happens: cover, sail, sit, pick, sing, tell · To what, where: blue sea, old women, hops, large tub, songs, fairy tales · 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 (barns, children, old people), 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 sea	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blue	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 dark	punct
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sea	amod
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 covered	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 covered	aux:pass
7	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	12 ships	case
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sailed	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 white	punct
11	sailed	sail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 ships	amod
12	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 covered	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sat	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 barns	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 barns	det
17	barns	barn	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 covered	parataxis
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 women	amod
20	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sat	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 girls	punct
22	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 women	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sang	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sang	cc
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 sang	nsubj
26	picking	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 children	acl
27	hops	hop	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 picking	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	31 tub	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 tub	det
30	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tub	amod
31	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 picking	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 ones	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ones	det
34	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 ones	amod
35	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 sang	nsubj
36	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sat	conj
37	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 sang	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 told	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 told	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 people	det
41	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 people	amod
42	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 told	nsubj
43	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sat	conj
44	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 tales	compound
45	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 told	obj
46	about	about	ADP	_	47 goblins	case
47	goblins	goblin	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 tales	nmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 sorcerers	cc
49	sorcerers	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 tales	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		the blue sea		with sailed ships	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with ship=Theme
2	sail	participle					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	sit	past	the barns	old women and girls			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location woman=Theme
4	pick	gerund	children not said here	hops	a large tub		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hop=Patient
5	sing speech: express	past	children	songs			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past	the old people	fairy tales and sorcerers		about goblins	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient about goblin=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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