Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 34

In one pot pinks were growing all over the sides, at least the green leaves were shooting forth stalk and stem, and saying as plainly as they could speak, "The air has fanned me, the sun has kissed me, and I am promised a little flower for next Sunday--really for next Sunday."

Who acts: one, green leaves, leaves · What happens: grow, shoot, stalk, say, speak, fan · To what, where: sides, least, air, sun · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (one, green leaves, leaves), 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	SCONJ	_	6 growing	mark
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 growing	nsubj
3	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pinks	compound
4	pinks	pink	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 growing	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 growing	aux
6	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	all	all	ADV	_	10 sides	advmod
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 sides	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sides	det
10	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 growing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shooting	punct
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 least	case
13	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 shooting	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 leaves	det
15	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 leaves	amod
16	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 shooting	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 shooting	aux
18	shooting	shoot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 growing	conj
19	forth	forth	ADV	_	18 shooting	advmod
20	stalk	stalk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 shooting	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stem	cc
22	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stalk	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 saying	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 saying	cc
25	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 growing	conj
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 plainly	advmod
27	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	25 saying	advmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 speak	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 speak	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 speak	aux
31	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 saying	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fanned	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	37 fanned	punct
34	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 air	det
35	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fanned	nsubj:pass
36	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 fanned	aux
37	fanned	fan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 speak	xcomp
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 fanned	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 kissed	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 sun	det
41	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 kissed	nsubj:pass
42	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 kissed	aux
43	kissed	kiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 fanned	parataxis
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 kissed	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 promised	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 promised	cc
47	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 promised	nsubj
48	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 promised	cop
49	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 growing	conj
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 flower	det
51	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 flower	amod
52	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 promised	obj
53	for	for	ADP	_	55 Sunday	case
54	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 Sunday	amod
55	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 promised	obl
56	--	--	PUNCT	_	60 Sunday	punct
57	really	really	ADV	_	60 Sunday	advmod
58	for	for	ADP	_	60 Sunday	case
59	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 Sunday	amod
60	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 growing	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 growing	punct
62	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 growing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · progressive	one		the sides	sunday		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over side=Location
2	shoot	past · progressive	the green leaves		least		forth property	tree rules
3	stalk	infinitive	the green leaves not said here					vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	gerund	one not said here				plainly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	speak speech: other	could	leaves = leaf					tree rules
6	fan in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the air				tree rules
7	kiss in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the sun				tree rules
8	is in a quote	present	leaves = leaf			sunday	promise property	tree rules

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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