Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 23
The flowers seemed like flames of the most gorgeous colors, and among the flowers stood a beautiful slender maiden.
Who acts: flowers, gorgeous colors · What happens: seem, stand, flame · To what, where: beautiful slender maiden, flowers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers, gorgeous colors), 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 flowers | det |
| 2 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 flames | case |
| 5 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 seemed | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 colors | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 colors | det |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 gorgeous | advmod |
| 9 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 colors | amod |
| 10 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flames | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stood | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stood | cc |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 flowers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 flowers | det |
| 15 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stood | obl |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seemed | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 maiden | det |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 maiden | amod |
| 19 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 maiden | amod |
| 20 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the flowers | like flames of the gorgeous colors | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the flowers not said here | a beautiful slender maiden | the flowers | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme among flower=Destination | |||
| 3 | flame | the gorgeous colors | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=agent |
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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