Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 56
But I once saw how a rose was laid in the mistress's hymn-book, and how one of my roses found a place in the bosom of a young beautiful girl, and how another was kissed by the lips of a child in the glad joy of life.
Who acts: I, one, lips · What happens: see, lay, find, kiss, bosom, joy · To what, where: rose, hymn book, place, bosom, another, young beautiful girl · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, one, lips), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 saw | advmod |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 laid | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rose | det |
| 7 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 laid | aux:pass |
| 9 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 book | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mistress | det |
| 12 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 book | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 mistress | case |
| 14 | hymn | hymn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 book | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 hymn | punct |
| 16 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laid | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 found | cc |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 one | advmod |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 found | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 roses | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 roses | nmod:poss |
| 23 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 one | nmod |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 place | det |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 bosom | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bosom | det |
| 29 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 found | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 girl | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 girl | det |
| 32 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 girl | amod |
| 33 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 girl | amod |
| 34 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bosom | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 kissed | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 kissed | cc |
| 37 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 40 kissed | advmod |
| 38 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 kissed | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 kissed | aux:pass |
| 40 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | conj |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 lips | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 lips | det |
| 43 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 kissed | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 child | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 child | det |
| 46 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 lips | nmod |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 joy | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 joy | det |
| 49 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 joy | amod |
| 50 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 child | nmod |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 life | case |
| 52 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 joy | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | once property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lay | past · passive | a rose | the mistress's hymn book | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in book=Destination | ||||
| 3 | find | past | one of my roses | a place | the bosom of a young beautiful girl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | |||
| 4 | kiss | past · passive | the lips of a child in the glad joy of life | another | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | bosom | a young beautiful girl | nom bosom «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | joy | life | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=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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