Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 71
Again the flower lay among verses--printed verses--and they are better than written ones--at least, more money has been spent upon them.
Who acts: flower, verses · What happens: lay, print, be, write, spend · To what, where: least, more money
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, 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 3 flower | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flower | det |
| 3 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 verses | case |
| 6 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lay | obl |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 verses | punct |
| 8 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 verses | amod | |
| 9 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 verses | appos |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 better | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 better | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 better | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 better | cop |
| 14 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 lay | conj |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 ones | case |
| 16 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 ones | amod |
| 17 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 better | obl |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 least | punct |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 least | case |
| 20 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 lay | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 spent | punct |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 money | amod |
| 23 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spent | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 spent | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 spent | aux:pass |
| 26 | spent | spend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 lay | conj |
| 27 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 spent | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | the flower | least | among verses | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent among verse=Destination | |||
| 2 | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||||
| 3 | is | present | verses = verse | than written ones; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | spend | present · perfect · passive | more money | upon verses = verse | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |
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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