Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 24

Have you ever given yourself an account why you bloomed, and how your blooming comes about--why just in that way and in no other?"

Who acts: you, blooming · What happens: give, bloom, come about · To what, where: account, yourself, way

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 (you, blooming), 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	Have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 given	nsubj
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 given	advmod
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 given	iobj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 account	det
7	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obj
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 bloomed	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 bloomed	nsubj
10	bloomed	bloom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 given	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 comes	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 comes	cc
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 comes	advmod
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 blooming	nmod:poss
15	blooming	blooming	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 comes	nsubj
16	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 given	parataxis
17	about	about	ADV	_	16 comes	advmod
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	23 way	punct
19	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	23 way	advmod
20	just	just	ADV	_	23 way	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 way	case
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 way	det
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 comes	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 other	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 other	case
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 other	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 way	conj
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 way	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · perfect	you	a account	yourself		ever		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient account=Theme
2	bloom	past	you						vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come about	present	your blooming			that way		about property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=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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