Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 70
It is a simple daisy, just bursting out of the bud.
Who acts: thought, simple daisy · What happens: be, burst out · To what, where: simple daisy, bud
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought, simple daisy), 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 | 5 daisy | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 daisy | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 daisy | det |
| 4 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 daisy | amod |
| 5 | daisy | daisy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bursting | punct |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 bursting | advmod |
| 8 | bursting | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 daisy | acl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 bud | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bud | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bud | det |
| 12 | bud | bud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bursting | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 daisy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | thought | a simple daisy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | burst out | gerund | a simple daisy not said here | the bud | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bud=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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