Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly, sentence 35
The flowers now appeared in their most gorgeous robes, but all in vain; they had not the fresh, fragrant air of youth.
Who acts: flowers · What happens: appear, have · To what, where: gorgeous robes, fresh fragrant air
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 (flowers), 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 flowers | det |
| 2 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 appeared | advmod |
| 4 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 robes | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 robes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 gorgeous | advmod |
| 8 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 robes | amod |
| 9 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 appeared | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 vain | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 vain | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 vain | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 vain | case |
| 14 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 appeared | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 appeared | conj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 air | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 air | det |
| 20 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 air | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fresh | punct |
| 22 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 air | amod |
| 23 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 youth | case |
| 25 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 air | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the flowers | flowers's gorgeous robes | now | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in robe=Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | flowers = flower | the fresh fragrant air of youth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
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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