Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 164
The flower in its color of flame seemed to receive its nourishment from the water, as a lamp is sustained by oil.
Who acts: flower · What happens: seem, receive, sustain · To what, where: nourishment, water, lamp
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flower), 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 flower | det |
| 2 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 color | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 color | nmod:poss |
| 5 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flower | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 flame | case |
| 7 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 color | nmod |
| 8 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 receive | mark |
| 10 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seemed | xcomp |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 nourishment | nmod:poss |
| 12 | nourishment | nourishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 receive | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 water | det |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 receive | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sustained | punct |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 sustained | mark |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lamp | det |
| 19 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sustained | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 sustained | aux:pass |
| 21 | sustained | sustain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 seemed | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 oil | case |
| 23 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sustained | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the flower in flower's color of flame | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | receive | to-infinitive | the flower in flower's color of flame not said here | flower's nourishment | the water | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nourishment=Theme from water=Source | |||
| 3 | sustain | present · passive | a lamp | by oil | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=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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