Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 43
A week after, the invalid sat up for the first time a whole hour, feeling quite happy by the open window in the warm sunshine, while outside grew the little plant, and on it a pink pea-blossom in full bloom.
Who acts: week · What happens: sit up, feel, grow · To what, where: little 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 (week), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 week | det |
| 2 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADV | _ | 2 week | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 invalid | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 invalid | det |
| 6 | invalid | invalid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 week | conj |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 sat | compound:prt |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hour | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hour | amod |
| 15 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 feeling | punct |
| 17 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sat | advcl |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 19 happy | advmod |
| 19 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 feeling | xcomp |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 window | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 window | det |
| 22 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 window | amod |
| 23 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 feeling | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 sunshine | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sunshine | det |
| 26 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sunshine | amod |
| 27 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 window | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 grew | punct |
| 29 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 grew | mark |
| 30 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 31 grew | advmod |
| 31 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sat | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 plant | det |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 plant | amod |
| 34 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 grew | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 blossom | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 blossom | cc |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 blossom | obl |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 blossom | det |
| 40 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 blossom | amod |
| 41 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 blossom | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 pea | punct |
| 43 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 grew | obl |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 bloom | case |
| 45 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 bloom | amod |
| 46 | bloom | bloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 blossom | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit up | past | a week and the invalid | hour; time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | feel | gerund | a week and the invalid not said here | by the open window in the warm sunshine; happy property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | a week and the invalid not said here | the little plant | a pink pea blossom in full bloom obl; outside property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 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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