Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 121
The roses got off very well; there they still stand with their red cheeks.
Who acts: roses · What happens: get off, stand
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 roses | det |
| 2 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 got | compound:prt |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 well | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 got | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 stand | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 stand | expl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stand | nsubj |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 stand | advmod |
| 11 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 cheeks | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 14 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cheeks | amod |
| 15 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stand | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get off | past | the roses | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | stand | present | roses = rose | there | still | with roses's red cheeks | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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