Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 55

They rode together through the sweet-scented woods, where the green boughs touched their shoulders, and the little birds sang among the fresh leaves.

Who acts: feet, green boughs, little birds · What happens: ride, scent, touch, sing · To what, where: scented woods, shoulders, fresh leaves

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet, green boughs, little birds), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	together	together	ADV	_	2 rode	advmod
4	through	through	ADP	_	9 woods	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woods	det
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 scented	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 sweet	punct
8	scented	scent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 woods	amod
9	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rode	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 touched	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 touched	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boughs	det
13	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 boughs	amod
14	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 touched	nsubj
15	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rode	parataxis
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 shoulders	nmod:poss
17	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 touched	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sang	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sang	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 birds	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 birds	amod
22	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sang	nsubj
23	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rode	conj
24	among	among	ADP	_	27 leaves	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 leaves	det
26	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 leaves	amod
27	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sang	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride	past	feet = foot		the scented woods	together property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Trajectory
2	scent	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	touch	past	the green boughs	feet's shoulders			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shoulder=Co-Theme
4	sing speech: express	past	the little birds		the fresh leaves		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among leaf=Location

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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