Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 58
The warm tears moistened the earth, and the rose-tree sprouted up at once, as blooming as when it had sunk; and Gerda embraced it and kissed the roses, and thought of the beautiful roses at home, and, with them, of little Kay.
Who acts: warm tears, Gerda · What happens: moisten, sprout up, bloom, sink, embrace, kiss · To what, where: earth, rose tree, roses
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 (warm tears, Gerda), 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 tears | det |
| 2 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tears | amod |
| 3 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | moistened | moisten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tears | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 earth | det |
| 6 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moistened | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tree | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 tree | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 10 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tree | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 rose | punct |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tears | conj |
| 13 | sprouted | sprout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tree | acl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 sprouted | compound:prt |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 once | case |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 sprouted | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 blooming | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 blooming | mark |
| 19 | blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 sprouted | advcl |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 sunk | mark |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 sunk | advmod |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sunk | nsubj:pass |
| 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 | 19 blooming | advcl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 embraced | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 embraced | cc |
| 27 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 embraced | nsubj |
| 28 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tears | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 embraced | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 kissed | cc |
| 31 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 embraced | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 roses | det |
| 33 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 kissed | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 thought | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 thought | cc |
| 36 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 embraced | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 roses | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 roses | det |
| 39 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 roses | amod |
| 40 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 thought | obl |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 home | case |
| 42 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 roses | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 them | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 them | cc |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 them | punct |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 them | case |
| 47 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 embraced | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 Kay | punct |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 Kay | case |
| 50 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 Kay | amod |
| 51 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 embraced | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moisten | participle | the warm tears and the rose tree not said here | the earth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent earth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sprout up | participle | the rose tree not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location | |||||
| 3 | bloom | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | sink | past · perfect · passive | earth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | embrace | past | Gerda | earth | of little Kay | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | |||
| 6 | kiss | past | Gerda not said here | the roses | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | think speech: other | past | Gerda not said here | of the beautiful roses at home | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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