Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 46
These words did the Flower so much good, they seemed to her like warm sunbeams.
Who acts: words · What happens: do, seem · To what, where: Flower
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 (words), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Flower | det |
| 5 | Flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 good | advmod |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 did | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seemed | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seemed | nsubj |
| 11 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seemed | obl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 sunbeams | case |
| 15 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sunbeams | amod |
| 16 | sunbeams | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seemed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | this words | the Flower | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | words = word | flower | like warm sunbeams | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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