Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 13
A new year began; the roses made their appearance, and the snail made his too.
Who acts: new year, roses, snail · What happens: begin, make · To what, where: appearance
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 (new year, roses, snail), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 year | amod |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 roses | det |
| 7 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 began | parataxis |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 10 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 snail | det |
| 14 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 too | nmod:poss |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 made | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | a new year | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | make | past | the roses | roses's appearance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset appearance=Product | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the snail | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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