Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 58
How delightful to be out in the air, near the fresh rose-bushes, that seem as if they would never finish blossoming!
Who acts: fresh rose bushes, bushes · What happens: be, seem, not finish, blossom · To what, where: air
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, 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 (fresh rose bushes, bushes), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 delightful | advmod |
| 2 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 out | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 out | cop |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 delightful | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 out | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bushes | punct |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 bushes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bushes | det |
| 12 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bushes | amod |
| 13 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bushes | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 rose | punct |
| 15 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 delightful | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seem | punct |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 seem | nsubj |
| 18 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 bushes | acl:relcl |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 finish | mark |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 finish | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 finish | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 finish | aux |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 finish | advmod |
| 24 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 seem | xcomp |
| 25 | blossoming | blossom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 finish | obj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 delightful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | to-infinitive | the air | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | the fresh rose bushes | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | not finish a condition, not said to happen | would | bushes = bush | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | blossom | gerund | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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