Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 55
Then they drop their leaves, which are blown away by the wind.
Who acts: roses, wind · What happens: drop, blow away · To what, where: leaves
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 (roses, wind), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drop | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drop | nsubj |
| 3 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 5 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drop | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 blown | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 blown | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 blown | aux:pass |
| 9 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 leaves | acl:relcl |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 blown | advmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 wind | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wind | det |
| 13 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blown | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present | roses = rose | roses's leaves | then | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | |||
| 2 | blow away | present · passive | the wind | roses's leaves | away property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent subject=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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