Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 5
It bloomed only once in five years, and then it had only one single rose upon it, but what a rose!
Who acts: tree · What happens: bloom, rose
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bloomed | nsubj |
| 2 | bloomed | bloom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 once | advmod |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 bloomed | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bloomed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rose | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rose | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 rose | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rose | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rose | aux |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 one | advmod |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 rose | nummod |
| 15 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rose | amod |
| 16 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bloomed | obl |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rose | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 what | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 what | cc |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 bloomed | parataxis |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 rose | det |
| 23 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 what | nsubj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 bloomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloom | past | tree | year | once property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | rose | past | tree | then | upon rose | tree rules |
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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