Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 37
“The rose in the valley is blooming so sweet, And angels descend there the children to greet.”
Who acts: rose, angels · What happens: bloom, descend, greet · To what, where: children
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rose, angels), 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 | _ | 8 blooming | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rose | det |
| 3 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blooming | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 valley | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 valley | det |
| 6 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 blooming | aux |
| 8 | blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 sweet | advmod |
| 10 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 blooming | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 descend | punct |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 descend | cc |
| 13 | angels | angel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 descend | nsubj |
| 14 | descend | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 blooming | parataxis |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 descend | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 children | det |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 descend | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 greet | mark |
| 19 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 descend | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 blooming | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 blooming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloom in a quote | present · progressive | the rose in the valley | sweet property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | descend in a quote | present | angels | the children | there | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location child=Theme | |||
| 3 | greet speech: greet in a quote | to-infinitive | angels not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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