Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 161

Here, on the hedges, and by the wayside, grew purple, green, and white grapes; lemons and oranges hung from trees in the woods; and the air was fragrant with myrtles and orange blossoms.

Who acts: air · What happens: grow, hang, be · To what, where: lemons, oranges, trees

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 grew	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 hedges	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hedges	det
5	hedges	hedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Here	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grew	cc
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 wayside	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wayside	det
10	wayside	wayside	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grew	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wayside	punct
12	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grew	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 green	punct
15	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 purple	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grapes	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grapes	cc
18	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grapes	amod
19	grapes	grape	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grew	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 lemons	punct
21	lemons	lemon	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grew	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 oranges	cc
23	oranges	orange	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lemons	conj
24	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 oranges	acl
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 trees	case
26	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hung	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 woods	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 woods	det
29	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hung	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 fragrant	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 fragrant	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 air	det
33	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fragrant	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 fragrant	cop
35	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grew	conj
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 myrtles	case
37	myrtles	myrtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 fragrant	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 blossoms	cc
39	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 blossoms	amod
40	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 myrtles	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	past		lemons and oranges	here	by the wayside; purple property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wayside=Location
2	hang	participle		oranges not said here	trees	in the woods	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location
3	is	past	the air			with myrtles and orange blossoms; fragrant property	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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