Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 8
The following year the snail lay in almost the same spot, in the sunshine under the rose-tree, which was again budding and bearing roses as fresh and beautiful as ever.
Who acts: snail, rose tree · What happens: follow, lie, be · To what, where: same spot, budding
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 (snail, rose tree), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 year | amod |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 snail | det |
| 5 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 6 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 spot | case |
| 8 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 11 spot | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spot | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 spot | amod |
| 11 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sunshine | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 sunshine | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sunshine | det |
| 15 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | parataxis |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 18 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 rose | punct |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sunshine | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 budding | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 budding | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 budding | cop |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 budding | advmod |
| 25 | budding | budding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 roses | cc |
| 27 | bearing | bearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 roses | compound |
| 28 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 budding | conj |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 fresh | case |
| 30 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 budding | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 beautiful | cc |
| 32 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fresh | conj |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 ever | case |
| 34 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 32 beautiful | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | lie | past | the snail | the same spot | year | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in spot=Location | |||
| 3 | is a | past | the rose tree and budding and bearing roses | budding and bearing roses | again | as fresh | 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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