Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 42
She remembered that for some time the child had spoken more cheerfully, and during the last few days had raised herself in bed in the morning to look with sparkling eyes at her little garden which contained only a single pea-plant.
Who acts: flower, little garden · What happens: remember, speak, raise, look, contain · To what, where: child, flower, bed, single pea plant · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (flower, little garden), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 remembered | nsubj |
| 2 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 spoken | mark |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spoken | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 spoken | aux |
| 10 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 remembered | ccomp |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 cheerfully | advmod |
| 12 | cheerfully | cheerfully | ADV | _ | 10 spoken | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 raised | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 raised | cc |
| 15 | during | during | ADP | _ | 19 days | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 days | det |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 days | amod |
| 18 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 days | amod |
| 19 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 raised | obl |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 raised | aux |
| 21 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 remembered | parataxis |
| 22 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 raised | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 bed | case |
| 24 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 raised | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 morning | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 morning | det |
| 27 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 raised | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 look | mark |
| 29 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 raised | advcl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 eyes | case |
| 31 | sparkling | sparkling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 eyes | amod |
| 32 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 look | obl |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 garden | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 garden | nmod:poss |
| 35 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 garden | amod |
| 36 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 look | obl |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 contained | nsubj |
| 38 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 garden | acl:relcl |
| 39 | only | only | ADV | _ | 44 plant | advmod |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 plant | det |
| 41 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 plant | amod |
| 42 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 plant | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 pea | punct |
| 44 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 contained | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | flower | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the child | time | cheerfully property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | raise | past · perfect | flower | bed | day; morning | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in bed=Destination | |||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | with sparkling eyes; at flower's little garden | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at garden=Theme | |||||
| 5 | contain | past | flower's little garden | a single pea plant | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot plant=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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