Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 9
The buckwheat did not bend like the other grain, but erected its head proudly and stiffly on the stem. "
Who acts: buckwheat · What happens: not bend, erect · To what, where: head, stem
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 buckwheat | det |
| 2 | buckwheat | buckwheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bend | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bend | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 bend | advmod |
| 5 | bend | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 grain | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 grain | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grain | amod |
| 9 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bend | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 erected | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 erected | cc |
| 12 | erected | erect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bend | conj |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 erected | obj |
| 15 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 12 erected | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stiffly | cc |
| 17 | stiffly | stiffly | ADV | _ | 15 proudly | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 stem | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stem | det |
| 20 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 erected | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bend | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bend | past · do-support | the buckwheat | like the other grain | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | erect | past | the buckwheat not said here | buckwheat's head | the stem | proudly property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Product |
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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