Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 204
The architect had planted it upon Thorwaldsen's grave, where it bloomed as an emblem of 'the beautiful' and yielded fragrant red rose-leaves to be carried as mementoes to distant lands.
What happens: plant, bloom, yield, carry · To what, where: architect, fragrant red rose leaves, distant lands
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: 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 architect | det |
| 2 | architect | architect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 planted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 planted | aux |
| 4 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 planted | obj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 grave | case |
| 7 | Thorwaldsen | Thorwaldsen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 grave | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Thorwaldsen | case |
| 9 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 planted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bloomed | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 bloomed | advmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bloomed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | bloomed | bloom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 grave | acl:relcl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 emblem | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 emblem | det |
| 16 | emblem | emblem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bloomed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 beautiful | case |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 beautiful | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 beautiful | det |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 emblem | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 beautiful | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 yielded | cc |
| 23 | yielded | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 planted | conj |
| 24 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 leaves | amod |
| 25 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 leaves | amod |
| 26 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 leaves | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 rose | punct |
| 28 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 yielded | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 carried | mark |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 carried | aux:pass |
| 31 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 leaves | acl |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 mementoes | case |
| 33 | mementoes | memento | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 carried | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 lands | case |
| 35 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 lands | amod |
| 36 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 carried | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 planted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant | past · perfect · passive | the architect | upon Thorwaldsen's grave | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme it=Destination | ||||
| 2 | bloom | participle · passive | architect | as a emblem | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | yield | past | fragrant red rose leaves | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | |||||
| 4 | carry | to-infinitive · passive | fragrant red rose leaves not said here | distant lands | as mementoes | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to land=Destination |
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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