Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2, sentence 42
Tamarinds and acacias were in full bloom all over the country, the crescent of Mahomet glittered brightly from the cupolas of the mosques, and on the slender pinnacles sat many of the storks, resting after their long journey.
Who acts: Tamarinds, crescent, slender pinnacles, storks · What happens: be, glitter, sit, rest, journey · To what, where: full bloom, cupolas, many
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tamarinds, crescent, slender pinnacles, storks), 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 | Tamarinds | tamarind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bloom | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 acacias | cc |
| 3 | acacias | acacia | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Tamarinds | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bloom | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bloom | case |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bloom | amod |
| 7 | bloom | bloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 country | advmod |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bloom | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 glittered | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 crescent | det |
| 14 | crescent | crescent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 glittered | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Mahomet | case |
| 16 | Mahomet | Mahomet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 crescent | nmod |
| 17 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bloom | parataxis |
| 18 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 17 glittered | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 cupolas | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cupolas | det |
| 21 | cupolas | cupola | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 glittered | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 mosques | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mosques | det |
| 24 | mosques | mosque | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 cupolas | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sat | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sat | cc |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 pinnacles | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 pinnacles | det |
| 29 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 pinnacles | amod |
| 30 | pinnacles | pinnacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 sat | nsubj |
| 31 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 glittered | conj |
| 32 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 sat | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 storks | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 storks | det |
| 35 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 many | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 resting | punct |
| 37 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 sat | advcl |
| 38 | after | after | ADP | _ | 41 journey | case |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 journey | nmod:poss |
| 40 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 journey | amod |
| 41 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 resting | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bloom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Tamarinds and acacias | full bloom | over the country | tree rules | |||
| 2 | glitter | past | the crescent of Mahomet | the cupolas of the mosques | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | sit | past | the slender pinnacles | many of the storks | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location many=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rest | gerund | the slender pinnacles not said here | after storks's long journey | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | journey | storks = stork | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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