Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 25

The apple-blossoms, though they looked like roses, bloomed to-day, but might fall off to-morrow, with the first wind that blew; and he thought that a marriage with one of them might last too short a time.

Who acts: apple blossoms, first wind, pretty, marriage · What happens: look, bloom, fall off, blow, think, last · To what, where: roses · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (apple blossoms, first wind, pretty, marriage), 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	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blossoms	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 apple	punct
4	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 looked	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 looked	punct
6	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 looked	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 looked	nsubj
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 roses	case
10	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 looked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bloomed	punct
12	bloomed	bloom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 roses	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 day	case
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 to	punct
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bloomed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fall	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 fall	cc
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 fall	aux
19	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 looked	parataxis
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 fall	compound:prt
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 morrow	case
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 to	punct
23	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fall	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wind	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 wind	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wind	det
27	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 wind	amod
28	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fall	obl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 blew	nsubj
30	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 wind	acl:relcl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 thought	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 thought	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 thought	nsubj
34	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 looked	conj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 last	mark
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 marriage	det
37	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 last	nsubj
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 one	case
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 marriage	nmod
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 them	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 one	nmod
42	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 last	aux
43	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 thought	ccomp
44	too	too	ADV	_	45 short	advmod
45	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 time	amod
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 time	det
47	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 last	obl:unmarked
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the apple blossoms			like roses	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	bloom	participle		roses not said here	day		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fall off	might				to morrow; with the first wind	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	blow	past	the first wind				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	think speech: other	past	pretty				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	last	might	a marriage with one of blossoms		time		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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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