Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 21
"Close your flowers and bend your leaves," said the old willow-tree. "
Who acts: you, old willow tree · What happens: close, bend, say · To what, where: flowers, leaves · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, old willow tree), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Close | punct |
| 2 | Close | close | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 flowers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Close | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bend | cc |
| 6 | bend | bend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Close | conj |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 8 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bend | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Close | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Close | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Close | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tree | amod |
| 14 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tree | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 willow | punct |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Close | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Close | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close in a quote | imperative | you not said here | your flowers | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bend in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | your leaves | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent leaf=Material | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old willow tree | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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