Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 47
In her joy the Flower did not even feel when it was broken off.
Who acts: Flower · What happens: not feel, break off, joy · To what, where: water
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 joy | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 joy | nmod:poss |
| 3 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feel | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Flower | det |
| 5 | Flower | Flower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 feel | nsubj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 feel | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 feel | advmod |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 feel | advmod |
| 9 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 broken | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 broken | aux:pass |
| 13 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 feel | advcl |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 broken | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel | past · do-support | the Flower | in flower's joy | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in joy=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | break off | past · passive | water | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | joy | flower | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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