Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 58

The Flower went forth on her journey, and lay in the post-bag, and was pressed and crushed, which was not at all pleasant; but that soon came to an end.

Who acts: Flower, that · What happens: go, lay, press, crush, not be, come · To what, where: journey, post-bag, all, end

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, that), 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 Flower	det
2	Flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	forth	forth	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 journey	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 journey	nmod:poss
7	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lay	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lay	cc
10	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 post-bag	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 post-bag	det
13	post-bag	post-bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lay	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pressed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pressed	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 pressed	aux:pass
17	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	parataxis
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 crushed	cc
19	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 pressed	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 pleasant	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 pleasant	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 pleasant	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 pleasant	advmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 all	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 pleasant	obl
26	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pressed	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 came	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 came	cc
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 came	nsubj
30	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 came	advmod
31	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 end	case
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 end	det
34	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 came	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the Flower	flower's journey		forth property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location
2	lay	infinitive	the Flower not said here	the post-bag			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in post-bag=Destination
3	press	past · passive					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»
4	crush	participle					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	not is	past		all		pleasant property	tree rules
6	come	past	that		to a end	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location
7	journey		flower				nom journey «act 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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