Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 16
She placed the thistle-flower in the buttonhole of the young man, and he felt himself highly honored.
Who acts: Scotland, man · What happens: place, feel, honor · To what, where: thistle flower, buttonhole
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 (Scotland, man), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 placed | nsubj |
| 2 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flower | det |
| 4 | thistle | thistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flower | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 thistle | punct |
| 6 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 buttonhole | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 buttonhole | det |
| 9 | buttonhole | buttonhole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buttonhole | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 felt | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 felt | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 felt | nsubj |
| 17 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 placed | conj |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 honored | nsubj |
| 19 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 20 honored | advmod |
| 20 | honored | honor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 felt | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | Scotland | the thistle flower | the buttonhole of the young man | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme in buttonhole=Destination | |||
| 2 | feel | past | man | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | honor | past | man | highly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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