Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 200
It had been changed into the purest gold--into gold that constantly grew and expanded into flowers and fruit of immortal beauty.
Who acts: gold · What happens: change, grow, expand · To what, where: life, purest gold, flowers
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 (gold), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 changed | aux:pass |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gold | det |
| 7 | purest | pure | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 gold | amod |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 gold | punct |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 grew | nsubj |
| 13 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 14 grew | advmod |
| 14 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gold | acl:relcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 expanded | cc |
| 16 | expanded | expand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 grew | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 flowers | case |
| 18 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 expanded | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fruit | cc |
| 20 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flowers | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 beauty | case |
| 22 | immortal | immortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 beauty | amod |
| 23 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fruit | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past · perfect · passive | life | into the purest gold result; into gold result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into gold=Result | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | gold | constantly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | expand | past | gold not said here | flowers and fruit of immortal beauty | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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