Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 84
No fresher rose hangs on the branches than she; no appleblossom carried away by the wind is more buoyant!
Who acts: fresher, appleblossom · What happens: rise, hang, carry away, be · To what, where: branches, appleblossom
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 (fresher, appleblossom), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 fresher | det |
| 2 | fresher | fresher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hangs | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fresher | acl |
| 4 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 branches | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 branches | det |
| 7 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hangs | obl |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 she | case |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 branches | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 buoyant | punct |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 appleblossom | det |
| 12 | appleblossom | appleblossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 buoyant | nsubj |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 appleblossom | acl |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 carried | advmod |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 wind | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wind | det |
| 17 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 buoyant | cop |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 buoyant | advmod |
| 20 | buoyant | buoyant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hangs | conj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 hangs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | no fresher not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hang | present | no fresher | the branches than maiden | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location | ||||
| 3 | carry away | participle | no appleblossom not said here | by the wind; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | no appleblossom | buoyant property | 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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