Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 110
"How beautifully the roses bloom before the ruined house," exclaimed a passer-by. "
Who acts: roses, passer · What happens: bloom, ruin, exclaim · To what, where: ruined house · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (roses, passer), 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 | _ | 6 bloom | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 beautifully | advmod |
| 3 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 6 bloom | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 roses | det |
| 5 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bloom | nsubj |
| 6 | bloom | bloom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 9 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 house | amod |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bloom | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 exclaimed | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 exclaimed | punct |
| 13 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bloom | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 passer | det |
| 15 | passer | passer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 exclaimed | obj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 by | punct |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 passer | fixed |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bloom | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bloom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloom in a quote | present | the roses | the ruined house | beautifully property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before house=Location | |||
| 2 | ruin in a quote | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | a passer | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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: «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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