Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 3
The drops penetrated through the snowy covering down into the earth, and touched the flower-bulb, and talked of the bright world above.
Who acts: drops · What happens: penetrate, cover down, touch, talk · To what, where: drops, snowy, earth, flower bulb
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 (drops), 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 | 2 drops | det |
| 2 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 touched | nsubj |
| 3 | penetrated | penetrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 drops | acl |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 snowy | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 snowy | det |
| 6 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 penetrated | obl |
| 7 | covering | cover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 snowy | advcl |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 covering | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 earth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 earth | det |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 covering | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 touched | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 touched | cc |
| 14 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bulb | det |
| 16 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bulb | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 flower | punct |
| 18 | bulb | bulb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 touched | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 talked | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 talked | cc |
| 21 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 touched | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 24 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 world | amod |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 talked | obl |
| 26 | above | above | ADV | _ | 21 talked | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | penetrate | participle | the drops not said here | the snowy | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cover down | gerund | the earth | down property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | touch | past | the drops | the flower bulb | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bulb=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | talk | past | the drops not said here | of the bright world; above property | vn talk-37.5 «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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