Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 52
But the young maiden stood at the open garret window, with sparkling eyes and the rosy hue of health on her cheeks, she folded her thin hands over the pea-blossom, and thanked God for what He had done.
Who acts: young maiden, maiden, God · What happens: stand, fold, thank, do · To what, where: open garret window, thin hands, pea blossom, God
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 (young maiden, maiden, God), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 stood | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maiden | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 maiden | amod |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 window | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 window | det |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 window | amod |
| 9 | garret | garret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 window | compound |
| 10 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eyes | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 eyes | case |
| 13 | sparkling | sparkling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 eyes | amod |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stood | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hue | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hue | det |
| 17 | rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hue | amod |
| 18 | hue | hue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eyes | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 health | case |
| 20 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hue | nmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 cheeks | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 23 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stood | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 folded | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 folded | nsubj |
| 26 | folded | fold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hands | nmod:poss |
| 28 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hands | amod |
| 29 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 folded | obj |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 blossom | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 blossom | det |
| 32 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 blossom | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 pea | punct |
| 34 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 folded | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 thanked | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 thanked | cc |
| 37 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 38 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 thanked | obj |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 what | case |
| 40 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 thanked | obl |
| 41 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 done | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 done | aux |
| 43 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 what | acl:relcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the young maiden | the open garret window | with sparkling eyes and the rosy hue of health; on maiden's cheeks | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location | |||
| 2 | fold | past | maiden | maiden's thin hands | the pea blossom | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | past | the young maiden not said here | God | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent god=Theme for what=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | God | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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