Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 11
No progress at all; the rose-tree sticks to its roses and gets no farther."
Who acts: progress · What happens: get
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (progress), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 progress | det |
| 2 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 progress | nmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 sticks | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 7 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 rose | punct |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sticks | compound |
| 10 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 progress | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 roses | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 roses | nmod:poss |
| 13 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sticks | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sticks | cc |
| 15 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 farther | det |
| 17 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 gets | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 gets | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | no progress at all and tree sticks to fresh's roses | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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