Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 38
How beautiful and fresh it was out among the rose-bushes, which seemed as if they would never leave off blooming.
Who acts: sun, beautiful rose bushes, children · What happens: be, seem, not leave off, bloom
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, beautiful rose bushes, children), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 beautiful | advmod |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bushes | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fresh | cc |
| 4 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 beautiful | conj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bushes | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bushes | cop |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 bushes | advmod |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 bushes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bushes | det |
| 10 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bushes | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 rose | punct |
| 12 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 seemed | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seemed | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 seemed | nsubj |
| 15 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 leave | mark |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 leave | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 leave | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 leave | aux |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 leave | advmod |
| 21 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seemed | xcomp |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 leave | compound:prt |
| 23 | blooming | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 leave | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sun | among the beautiful rose bushes; out property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | the beautiful rose bushes | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | not leave off a condition, not said to happen | would | children = child | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bloom | gerund | children = child not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=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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