Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 109
Thick smoke still rose from the ruins, but the rose-bush stood yonder, fresh, blooming, and untouched, every flower and every twig being reflected in the clear water.
Who acts: Thick smoke, rose bush · What happens: rise, stand, bloom, reflect · To what, where: ruins, twig, clear water
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thick smoke, rose bush), 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 | Thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 smoke | amod |
| 2 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 rose | advmod |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 ruins | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ruins | det |
| 7 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rose | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stood | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 stood | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bush | det |
| 11 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bush | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 rose | punct |
| 13 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stood | nsubj |
| 14 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 15 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 14 stood | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fresh | punct |
| 17 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stood | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 blooming | punct |
| 19 | blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 fresh | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 untouched | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 untouched | cc |
| 22 | untouched | untouched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stood | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 flower | punct |
| 24 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 flower | det |
| 25 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 untouched | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 reflected | cc |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 twig | det |
| 28 | twig | twig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 reflected | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 reflected | aux:pass |
| 30 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 untouched | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 water | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 water | det |
| 33 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 water | amod |
| 34 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 reflected | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Thick smoke | the ruins | still | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ruin=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | stand | past | the rose bush | fresh, yonder property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bloom | gerund | the rose bush not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | reflect | gerund · passive | every twig | the clear water | 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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