Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 9
The tree bloomed, and the porter's little son bloomed too, and looked like a fresh tulip.
Who acts: tree · What happens: bloom, look · To what, where: tree, little son
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree), 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 tree | det |
| 2 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | bloomed | bloom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tree | acl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 son | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 son | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 porter | det |
| 7 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 porter | case |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 son | amod |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tree | conj |
| 11 | bloomed | bloom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 son | acl |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 bloomed | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 tulip | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tulip | det |
| 18 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tulip | amod |
| 19 | tulip | tulip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloom | participle | the tree and the porter's little son not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bloom | participle | the porter's little son not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | past | the tree and the porter's little son | like a fresh tulip | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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