Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 80
No rose on its stem is fresher than she; no apple-blossom, wafted by the wind, floats more lightly than she moves.
Who acts: rose, ivy, road · What happens: be, waft, float, move, stem · To what, where: apple blossom
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 (rose, ivy, road), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 rose | det |
| 2 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fresher | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 stem | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 stem | nmod:poss |
| 5 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rose | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fresher | cop |
| 7 | fresher | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 blossom | case |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 blossom | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 blossom | punct |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 blossom | det |
| 12 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 blossom | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 apple | punct |
| 14 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fresher | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wafted | punct |
| 16 | wafted | waft | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 blossom | acl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 wind | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wind | det |
| 19 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wafted | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 floats | punct |
| 21 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fresher | conj |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 lightly | advmod |
| 23 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 21 floats | advmod |
| 24 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 26 moves | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 moves | nsubj |
| 26 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 lightly | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fresher | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | no rose on road's stem | than no apple blossom; fresh property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | waft | participle | no apple blossom not said here | by the wind | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wind=Location | ||||
| 3 | float | present | no rose on road's stem not said here | lightly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | move | present | ivy | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stem | road | nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=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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