Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 16
"Welcome, welcome!" sang and sounded every ray, and the Flower lifted itself up over the snow into the brighter world.
Who acts: Flower · What happens: sing, sound, lift up · To what, where: ray, snow
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flower), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 sang | punct |
| 2 | Welcome | welcome | INTJ | _ | 7 sang | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Welcome | punct |
| 4 | welcome | welcome | INTJ | _ | 7 sang | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 welcome | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 welcome | punct |
| 7 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sounded | cc |
| 9 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sang | conj |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 ray | det |
| 11 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sounded | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lifted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lifted | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Flower | det |
| 15 | Flower | Flower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 lifted | nsubj |
| 16 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sang | conj |
| 17 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 lifted | obj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 lifted | compound:prt |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 snow | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 snow | det |
| 21 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lifted | obl |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 24 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 world | amod |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lifted | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | sound | past | every ray | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ray=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lift up | past | the Flower | ray | the snow | into the brighter world | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent itself=Theme over snow=Destination into world=Initial_Location |
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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