Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 30

Then he promised every little thistle flower which unfolded itself that it also should be put into a pot, and perhaps into a buttonhole, the highest honor that could be attained.

Who acts: last, little thistle flower · What happens: promise, unfold, put, attain · To what, where: little thistle flower, buttonhole, manner, pot, highest honor

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 (last, little thistle flower), 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	3 promised	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 promised	nsubj
3	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 flower	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flower	amod
6	thistle	thistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flower	compound
7	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 promised	obj
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 unfolded	nsubj
9	unfolded	unfold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flower	acl:relcl
10	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 unfolded	obj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 put	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 put	nsubj:pass
13	also	also	ADV	_	16 put	advmod
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 put	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 put	aux:pass
16	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 unfolded	advcl
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 pot	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pot	det
19	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 buttonhole	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 buttonhole	cc
22	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	25 buttonhole	advmod
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 buttonhole	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 buttonhole	det
25	buttonhole	buttonhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 promised	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 honor	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 honor	det
28	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 honor	amod
29	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 buttonhole	appos
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 attained	obj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 attained	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 attained	aux:pass
33	attained	attain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 honor	acl:relcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	last	every little thistle flower	a buttonhole	then	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent flower=Theme
2	unfold	past	every little thistle flower	manner			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
3	put	should · passive		manner	a pot		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
4	attain	could · passive		the highest honor			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: that=Theme

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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