Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 52
But on he went, without being disheartened, deeper and deeper into the wood, where the most wonderful flowers were growing.
Who acts: king, wonderful flowers · What happens: go, dishearten, grow
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, wonderful flowers), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 4 went | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 disheartened | punct |
| 6 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 disheartened | mark |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 disheartened | aux:pass |
| 8 | disheartened | dishearten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 deeper | punct |
| 10 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 disheartened | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 deeper | cc |
| 12 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 deeper | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 wood | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wood | det |
| 15 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 deeper | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 growing | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 growing | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 flowers | det |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 20 wonderful | advmod |
| 20 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 flowers | amod |
| 21 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 growing | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 growing | aux |
| 23 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 wood | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | king | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dishearten | gerund · passive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||||
| 3 | grow | past · progressive | the wonderful flowers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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