Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 81
Her rich silk rustles as she bends over and exclaims, 'Will he not come?'
Who acts: rich silk, ivy, silk · What happens: rustle, bend over, exclaim, not come · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (rich silk, ivy, silk), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 silk | nmod:poss |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 silk | amod |
| 3 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rustles | nsubj |
| 4 | rustles | rustle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 bends | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bends | nsubj |
| 7 | bends | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rustles | advcl |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 bends | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 exclaims | cc |
| 10 | exclaims | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 rustles | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 13 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 come | advmod |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 exclaims | ccomp |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 rustles | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 rustles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rustle | present | ivy's rich silk | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bend over | present | ivy | over property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | present | ivy's rich silk not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not come | future | silk | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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