Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 34

It was quite green, like the leaves of the elder, and was trimmed with large white Elder-flowers; so that at first one could not tell whether it was a stuff, or a natural green and real flowers.

Who acts: odour · What happens: be, trim, not tell · To what, where: stuff · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (odour), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 green	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 green	cop
3	quite	quite	ADV	_	4 green	advmod
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 leaves	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 leaves	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 leaves	det
8	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 green	parataxis
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 elder	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 elder	det
11	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leaves	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 trimmed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 trimmed	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 trimmed	aux:pass
15	trimmed	trim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 green	parataxis
16	with	with	ADP	_	21 flowers	case
17	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 flowers	amod
18	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 flowers	amod
19	Elder	Elder	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 flowers	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 Elder	punct
21	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 trimmed	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 tell	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	30 tell	mark
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 so	fixed
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 one	case
26	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 one	amod
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tell	obl
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 tell	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 tell	advmod
30	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 green	parataxis
31	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	35 stuff	mark
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 stuff	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 stuff	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 stuff	det
35	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tell	ccomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 green	punct
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 green	cc
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 green	det
39	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 green	amod
40	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tell	parataxis
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 flowers	cc
42	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 flowers	amod
43	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 green	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 green	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	odour		green property	tree rules
2	trim	past · passive			with large white Elder flowers	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with flower=Theme
3	not tell speech: assert	could			at first one	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	odour	a stuff		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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