Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 24
The lime-blossoms, too small, and besides, there was such a large family of them.
What happens: be · To what, where: large family
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Butterfly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 4 blossoms | det |
| 2 | lime | lime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blossoms | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 lime | punct |
| 4 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 small | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 small | punct |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 small | advmod |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 family | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 family | cc |
| 10 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 13 was | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 besides | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 family | cop |
| 14 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 family | det:predet |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 family | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 family | amod |
| 17 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 small | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 family | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | such large family | of blossoms = blossom | tree rules |
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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