Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 29

The birds sang as if they were also of this new congregation; and the fragrance of the wild flowers was as the ambrosial perfume of incense; while, above all, sounded the words of Scripture, "A light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide their feet into the way of peace."

Who acts: birds, movements, fragrance, all, that · What happens: sing, be, sound, sit, guide, word · To what, where: words, darkness, feet, way, Scripture, death · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, movements, fragrance, all), 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	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sang	nsubj
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	12 congregation	case
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 as	fixed
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 congregation	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 congregation	cop
8	also	also	ADV	_	12 congregation	advmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 congregation	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 congregation	det
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 congregation	amod
12	congregation	congregation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sang	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 perfume	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 perfume	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fragrance	det
16	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 perfume	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 flowers	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 flowers	det
19	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flowers	compound
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fragrance	nmod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 perfume	cop
22	as	as	ADP	_	25 perfume	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 perfume	det
24	ambrosial	ambrosial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 perfume	amod
25	perfume	perfume	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sang	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 incense	case
27	incense	incense	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 perfume	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 sounded	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 all	mark
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 all	punct
31	above	above	ADP	_	32 all	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 sounded	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 all	punct
34	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sang	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 words	det
36	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 sounded	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Scripture	case
38	Scripture	Scripture	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 words	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 light	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	42 light	punct
41	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 light	det
42	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sounded	obl
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 them	case
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 light	nmod
45	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 sit	nsubj
46	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 light	parataxis
47	in	in	ADP	_	48 darkness	case
48	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sit	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 shadow	cc
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 shadow	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 shadow	det
52	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sit	conj
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 death	case
54	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 shadow	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 guide	punct
56	to	to	PART	_	57 guide	mark
57	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 sounded	advcl
58	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 feet	nmod:poss
59	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 guide	obj
60	into	into	ADP	_	62 way	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 way	det
62	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 guide	obl
63	of	of	ADP	_	64 peace	case
64	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 way	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sang	punct
66	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	the birds				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	is	past	movements = movement			as this new congregation	tree rules
3	is	past	the fragrance of the wild flowers			as the ambrosial perfume; of incense	tree rules
4	sound	past	all	the words of Scripture		a light to movements obl	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme
5	sit in a quote	present	that		darkness		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in darkness=Location
6	guide in a quote	to-infinitive	all not said here	movements's feet	the way of peace		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme into way=Destination
7	word			Scripture			nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient
8	shadow in a quote			death			nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient

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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