Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 59
And the rose tree went on blooming in innocence, while the snail lay idling in his house--the world was nothing to him.
Who acts: rose tree, snail, idling · What happens: go, bloom, lie, idle, be · To what, where: innocence, house, nothing, Snail
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 (rose tree, snail, idling), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 3 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | compound |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 blooming | mark |
| 7 | blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 went | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 innocence | case |
| 9 | innocence | innocence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blooming | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lay | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 lay | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 snail | det |
| 13 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lay | nsubj |
| 14 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 15 | idling | idle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 nothing | csubj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 idling | obl |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 world | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | conj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 nothing | cop |
| 23 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 lay | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 nothing | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the rose tree | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bloom | gerund | the rose tree not said here | innocence | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in innocence=Location | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | the snail | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | idle | gerund | Snail's house and the world | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | idling | nothing | Snail | tree rules |
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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