Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 13

There still stands the birch, with its white bark and its delicate, loosely hanging leaves; and with regard to the living beings who frequented this spot, the fly still wears a gauzy dress of the same cut, and the favorite colors of the stork are white, with black and red for stockings.

Who acts: living beings, fly, favorite colors · What happens: stand, hang, frequent, wear, be · To what, where: birch, leaves, spot, gauzy dress

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (living beings, fly, favorite colors), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 stands	expl
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 stands	advmod
3	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 birch	det
5	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stands	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bark	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 bark	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bark	nmod:poss
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bark	amod
10	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stands	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 delicate	cc
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 delicate	nmod:poss
13	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bark	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hanging	punct
15	loosely	loosely	ADV	_	16 hanging	advmod
16	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 delicate	parataxis
17	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hanging	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 wears	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 wears	cc
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 regard	case
21	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wears	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 beings	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 beings	det
24	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 beings	amod
25	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 regard	nmod
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 frequented	nsubj
27	frequented	frequent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 beings	acl:relcl
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 spot	det
29	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 frequented	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 regard	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fly	det
32	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wears	nsubj
33	still	still	ADV	_	34 wears	advmod
34	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stands	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 dress	det
36	gauzy	gauzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 dress	amod
37	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wears	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 cut	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 cut	det
40	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 cut	amod
41	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 dress	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 white	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 white	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 colors	det
45	favorite	favorite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 colors	amod
46	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 white	nsubj
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 stork	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 stork	det
49	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 colors	nmod
50	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 white	cop
51	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stands	parataxis
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 black	punct
53	with	with	ADP	_	54 black	case
54	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 white	conj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 red	cc
56	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 black	conj
57	for	for	ADP	_	58 stockings	case
58	stockings	stocking	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 black	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present		the birch	there	still	with birch's white bark	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer birch=Stimulus
2	hang	gerund		leaves			loosely property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
3	frequent	past	the living beings	this spot				tree rules
4	wear	present	the fly	a gauzy dress of the same cut		still	with regard to the living beings	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme
5	is	present	the favorite colors of the stork				white property	tree rules
6	be		the favorite colors of the stork not said here				for stockings	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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