Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 40
And it did shoot up, indeed it might almost be seen to grow from day to day.
Who acts: plant · What happens: shoot up, see, grow · To what, where: plant
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plant), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 shoot | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shoot | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shoot | aux |
| 4 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 shoot | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seen | punct |
| 7 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 12 seen | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux |
| 10 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 12 seen | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seen | aux:pass |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 shoot | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 grow | mark |
| 14 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 seen | xcomp |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grow | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grow | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shoot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot up | past · do-support | plant | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | might · passive | plant | almost, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | to-infinitive | plant not said here | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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