Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 56
Yes, all this was in the verses, and the paper was folded up like a letter, and the Flower was folded in the letter, too.
Who acts: this, verses · What happens: be, fold up, fold · To what, where: verses, paper, Flower, letter
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 (this, verses), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 verses | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 verses | det:predet |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 verses | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 verses | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 verses | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 verses | det |
| 8 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 folded | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 folded | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 paper | det |
| 12 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 folded | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 folded | aux:pass |
| 14 | folded | fold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 verses | acl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 folded | compound:prt |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 letter | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 letter | det |
| 18 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 folded | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 folded | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 folded | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Flower | det |
| 22 | Flower | Flower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 folded | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 folded | aux:pass |
| 24 | folded | fold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 verses | acl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 letter | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 letter | det |
| 27 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 folded | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 too | punct |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 24 folded | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 verses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this | all verses | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fold up | past · passive | all verses not said here | the paper | like a letter | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | fold | past · passive | the Flower | the letter | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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