Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventh Evening, sentence 21

"The flowers scented the air; every breath of air was hushed; it seemed as if the sea were a part of the sky that stretched above the deep valley.

Who acts: flowers, it, sea, sky · What happens: scent, hush, seem, be, stretch · To what, where: air, breath, part, deep valley

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers, it, sea, sky), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 scented	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flowers	det
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scented	nsubj
4	scented	scent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scented	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 hushed	punct
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 breath	det
9	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hushed	nsubj:pass
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 air	case
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 breath	nmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hushed	aux:pass
13	hushed	hush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 scented	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 seemed	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seemed	nsubj
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scented	conj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 part	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 part	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sea	det
20	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 part	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 part	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 part	det
23	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seemed	xcomp
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 sky	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sky	det
26	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 part	nmod
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 stretched	nsubj
28	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sky	acl:relcl
29	above	above	ADP	_	32 valley	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 valley	det
31	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 valley	amod
32	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stretched	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 scented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scent in a quote	past	the flowers	the air			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent air=Destination
2	hush in a quote	past · passive		every breath of air			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	seem in a quote	past	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	the sea	a part		of the sky	tree rules
5	stretch in a quote	past	the sky		the deep valley		vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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