Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 62
Even the souvenir rose in the hymn-book was faded, but in the garden there were other rose trees and other snails.
Who acts: souvenir, other · What happens: rise, fade, be · To what, where: hymn book, garden, trees
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 (souvenir, other), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 4 rose | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 souvenir | det |
| 3 | souvenir | souvenir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 book | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 book | det |
| 7 | hymn | hymn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 book | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 hymn | punct |
| 9 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 faded | obl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 faded | aux:pass |
| 11 | faded | fade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rose | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 were | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 were | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 garden | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 garden | det |
| 16 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 were | obl |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 were | expl |
| 18 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 rose | advcl |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rose | nsubj |
| 20 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 21 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rose | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 snails | cc |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 snails | amod |
| 24 | snails | snail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 trees | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the souvenir | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fade | past · passive | the hymn book | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | |||||
| 3 | be | past | other not said here | the garden; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location | ||||
| 4 | rise | past | other | trees and other snails | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |
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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