Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 11
Then her eye glanced across the paling--outside stood the great thistle bush, with the reddish-blue, sturdy flowers; she saw them, she smiled, and asked the son of the house to pluck one for her.
Who acts: eye · What happens: glance, stand, see, smile, ask, pluck · To what, where: great thistle bush, flowers, son, one
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 glanced | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eye | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glanced | nsubj |
| 4 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 paling | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 paling | det |
| 7 | paling | paling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glanced | obl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
| 9 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 10 stood | advmod |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glanced | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bush | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bush | amod |
| 13 | thistle | thistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bush | compound |
| 14 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flowers | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 flowers | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 flowers | det |
| 18 | reddish | reddish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 blue | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 reddish | punct |
| 20 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 flowers | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 blue | punct |
| 22 | sturdy | sturdy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 flowers | amod |
| 23 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stood | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 saw | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 saw | nsubj |
| 26 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glanced | parataxis |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 saw | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 smiled | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 smiled | nsubj |
| 30 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 saw | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 asked | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 asked | cc |
| 33 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 glanced | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 son | det |
| 35 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 asked | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 house | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 house | det |
| 38 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 son | nmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 pluck | mark |
| 40 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 asked | xcomp |
| 41 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 pluck | obj |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 her | case |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 one | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glance | past | lady's eye | then | across the paling | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent across paling=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | past | lady's eye not said here | the great thistle bush | with the blue sturdy flowers; outside property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bush=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | see | past | eye | flowers = flower | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | smile | past | eye | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | lady's eye not said here | the son of the house | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | pluck not said to happen | to-infinitive | lady's eye not said here | one | for lady | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent one=Theme for she=Beneficiary |
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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