Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 206
The roses nodded; they recognized their grey neighbours and were pleased to see them again. "
Who acts: roses · What happens: nod, recognize, be, see · To what, where: grey neighbours, roses
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 nodded | nsubj |
| 3 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 recognized | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 recognized | nsubj |
| 6 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 nodded | conj |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 8 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 neighbours | amod |
| 9 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 recognized | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pleased | cc |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pleased | cop |
| 12 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 recognized | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pleased | xcomp |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 see | obj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 see | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 nodded | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | the roses | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | recognize | past | roses = rose | roses's grey neighbours | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neighbour=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | roses = rose not said here | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | roses = rose not said here | roses = rose | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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