Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 82
The Flower understood this, in her way, as we interpret everything in our way.
Who acts: Flower, we · What happens: understand, interpret · To what, where: this, everything, way
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, we), 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 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 understood | nsubj |
| 3 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 understood | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 way | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod:poss |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 understood | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 interpret | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 interpret | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 interpret | nsubj |
| 12 | interpret | interpret | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 understood | parataxis |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 12 interpret | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 way | case |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 way | nmod:poss |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 interpret | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | the Flower | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | interpret | present | we | everything | our way | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent everything=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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