Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 7
The roses were again reflected; they were very beautiful, but they did not know it, for no one had told them.
Who acts: roses · What happens: reflect, be, not know, tell · To what, where: roses, water, one · 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), 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 | 5 reflected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reflected | aux:pass |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 reflected | advmod |
| 5 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 beautiful | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 beautiful | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 beautiful | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 beautiful | advmod |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reflected | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 know | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 know | advmod |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 beautiful | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 know | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 told | punct |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 told | mark |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 told | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 told | aux |
| 23 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 know | ccomp |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 told | iobj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reflected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reflect | past · passive | the roses | again | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | roses = rose | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | roses = rose | water | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | no one | roses = rose | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient they=Topic |
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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