Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 15

All the field-flowers folded their leaves together, or bowed their little heads, while the storm passed over them, but the buckwheat stood erect in its pride. "

Who acts: field flowers, storm, buckwheat · What happens: fold, bow, pass, stand, pride · To what, where: leaves, little heads, pride

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (field flowers, storm, buckwheat), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 flowers	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flowers	det
3	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flowers	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 field	punct
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 folded	nsubj
6	folded	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 leaves	nmod:poss
8	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 folded	obj
9	together	together	ADV	_	6 folded	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bowed	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 bowed	cc
12	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 folded	parataxis
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 heads	nmod:poss
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 heads	amod
15	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bowed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 passed	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 passed	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 storm	det
19	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 passed	nsubj
20	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bowed	conj
21	over	over	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 passed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stood	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 stood	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 buckwheat	det
26	buckwheat	buckwheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stood	nsubj
27	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 folded	conj
28	erect	erect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stood	xcomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 pride	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 pride	nmod:poss
31	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stood	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 folded	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 folded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fold	past	all field flowers	flowers's leaves		together property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
2	bow	past		flowers's little heads			vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic
3	pass	past	the storm			over flowers = flower	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over they=Location
4	stand	past	the buckwheat		storm's pride	erect property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pride=Location
5	pride		storm				nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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