Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 49
Every flower that one could think of, and of every season, stood there in fullest bloom; no picture-book could be gayer or more beautiful.
Who acts: one, flower, picture book · What happens: think, stand, be · To what, where: flower, fullest bloom
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, 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 (one, flower, picture book), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 flower | det |
| 2 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 think | mark |
| 4 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 think | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 think | aux |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 flower | acl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 think | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 season | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 season | cc |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 season | case |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 season | det |
| 12 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flower | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 flower | punct |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 stood | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 bloom | case |
| 17 | fullest | full | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 bloom | amod |
| 18 | bloom | bloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 gayer | punct |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 book | det |
| 21 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 book | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 picture | punct |
| 23 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 gayer | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 gayer | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 gayer | cop |
| 26 | gayer | gay | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 stood | parataxis |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 beautiful | cc |
| 28 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 beautiful | advmod |
| 29 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 gayer | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | could | one | every flower not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot flower=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | every flower | fullest bloom; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bloom=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | could | no picture book | gay property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | no picture book not said here | 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: «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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