Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 33
In the balcony stood flower-pots, on which were heads having asses' ears, but the flowers in them grew just as they pleased.
Who acts: heads, flowers · What happens: stand, be, have, grow · To what, where: flower pots, balcony, heads, ears
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heads, flowers), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 balcony | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 balcony | det |
| 3 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pots | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 flower | punct |
| 7 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heads | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 12 heads | det |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heads | cop |
| 12 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pots | conj |
| 13 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 heads | acl |
| 14 | asses | ass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ears | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 14 asses | case |
| 16 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 having | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grew | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 grew | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 flowers | det |
| 20 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 grew | nsubj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 them | case |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 flowers | nmod |
| 23 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | conj |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 27 pleased | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 pleased | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 pleased | nsubj |
| 27 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 grew | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | flower pots and which heads | the balcony | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pot=Theme in balcony=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | which heads | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | gerund | which heads not said here | asses's ears | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | the flowers in ears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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