Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 27
He was just about to make her an offer, when, close by the maiden, he saw a pod, with a withered flower hanging at the end.
Who acts: marriage, withered flower · What happens: be, see, wither, hang · To what, where: pod, end
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 (marriage, withered flower), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 about | advmod |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 make | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 offer | det |
| 9 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 close | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 close | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 close | punct |
| 13 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 make | advcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 maiden | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 maiden | det |
| 16 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 close | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 close | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pod | det |
| 21 | pod | pod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 flower | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 flower | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 flower | det |
| 25 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 flower | amod |
| 26 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obl |
| 27 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 flower | acl |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 end | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 end | det |
| 30 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hanging | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | marriage | about, make property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | marriage | a pod | with a withered flower | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pod=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | wither | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | hang | gerund | a withered flower not said here | at the end | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location |
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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