Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 57
Then she sat down and wept, and her tears fell just on the place where one of the rose-trees had sunk down.
Who acts: Gerda, tears · What happens: sit down, weep, fall, sink down · To what, where: place, one
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, tears), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wept | cc |
| 6 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fell | cc |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 tears | nmod:poss |
| 10 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fell | nsubj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 place | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 sunk | advmod |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 sunk | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 trees | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 trees | det |
| 20 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 trees | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 rose | punct |
| 22 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sunk | aux |
| 24 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 place | acl:relcl |
| 25 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 sunk | compound:prt |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Gerda | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | weep | past | Gerda not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | Gerda's tears | the place | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on place=Location | ||||
| 4 | sink down | past · perfect · passive | one of the rose trees | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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