Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 15
And he brought the fairest blossom, and pricked his fingers as completely as if it had grown on the sharpest rose bush.
Who acts: Ass, blossom · What happens: bring, prick, grow · To what, where: fairest blossom, fingers, sharpest rose bush
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 (Ass, blossom), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 brought | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 blossom | det |
| 5 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 blossom | amod |
| 6 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pricked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pricked | cc |
| 9 | pricked | prick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pricked | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 completely | advmod |
| 13 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 9 pricked | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 grown | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 grown | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 grown | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 grown | aux |
| 18 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 pricked | advcl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 bush | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bush | det |
| 21 | sharpest | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 bush | amod |
| 22 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bush | compound |
| 23 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grown | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | Ass | the fairest blossom | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent blossom=Theme | ||||
| 2 | prick | past | Ass not said here | Ass's fingers | completely property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Patient | |||
| 3 | grow | past · perfect | blossom | the sharpest rose bush | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bush=Location |
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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