Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 171
The lion and the tiger, gentle and tame, were springing about like playful cats among the green bushes, whose perfume was like the fragrant blossom of the olive.
Who acts: lion, perfume, fragrant blossom · What happens: spring, be, perfume · To what, where: green bushes
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 (lion, perfume, fragrant blossom), 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 lion | det |
| 2 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 springing | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tiger | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tiger | det |
| 5 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lion | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gentle | punct |
| 7 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tiger | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tame | cc |
| 9 | tame | tame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gentle | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 lion | punct |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 springing | aux |
| 12 | springing | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 springing | advmod |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 cats | case |
| 15 | playful | playful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cats | amod |
| 16 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 springing | obl |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 bushes | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bushes | det |
| 19 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bushes | amod |
| 20 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 springing | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 blossom | punct |
| 22 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 23 perfume | nmod:poss |
| 23 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 blossom | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 blossom | cop |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 blossom | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 blossom | det |
| 27 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 blossom | amod |
| 28 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bushes | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 olive | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 olive | det |
| 31 | olive | olive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 blossom | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 springing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past · progressive | the lion and the tiger | the green bushes | like playful cats; about property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among bush=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | is | past | the fragrant blossom's perfume | like the fragrant blossom; of the olive | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | perfume | the fragrant blossom | nom perfume «cognition 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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