Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 79
The heather was in blossom, and the juniper-bushes and fresh oak saplings rose like bouquets from the earth.
Who acts: heather, juniper bushes · What happens: be, rose · To what, where: blossom, earth
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heather, juniper bushes), 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 | 2 heather | det |
| 2 | heather | heather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blossom | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blossom | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 blossom | case |
| 5 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rose | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rose | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bushes | det |
| 9 | juniper | juniper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bushes | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 juniper | punct |
| 11 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rose | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saplings | cc |
| 13 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 saplings | amod |
| 14 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saplings | compound |
| 15 | saplings | sapling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bushes | conj |
| 16 | rose | rose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blossom | conj |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 bouquets | case |
| 18 | bouquets | bouquet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rose | obl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 earth | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 earth | det |
| 21 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rose | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 blossom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the heather | blossom | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rose | present | the juniper bushes and fresh oak saplings | the earth | like bouquets | 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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