Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 17
Each of the other young gentlemen would willingly have given his own beautiful flower to have worn this one, presented by the fair hand of the Scottish maiden.
Who acts: Each · What happens: give, wear, present · To what, where: own beautiful flower, 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 (Each), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 given | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gentlemen | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gentlemen | det |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gentlemen | amod |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gentlemen | amod |
| 6 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Each | nmod |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 given | aux |
| 8 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 10 given | advmod |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 given | aux |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 flower | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 flower | amod |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 flower | amod |
| 14 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 worn | mark |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 worn | aux |
| 17 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 flower | acl |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 worn | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 presented | punct |
| 21 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 one | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 hand | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hand | det |
| 24 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hand | amod |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 presented | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 maiden | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 maiden | det |
| 28 | Scottish | Scottish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 maiden | amod |
| 29 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hand | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | would · perfect | Each | man's own beautiful flower | willingly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | |||
| 2 | wear | to-infinitive · perfect | Each not said here | this one | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent one=Source | ||||
| 3 | present | participle | this one not said here | by the fair hand of the Scottish maiden | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «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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