Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 36
The flowers hung their heads and faded; but after a time new ones came.
Who acts: flowers · What happens: hang, fade, come · To what, where: heads
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 (flowers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 flowers | det |
| 2 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hung | nsubj |
| 3 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heads | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hung | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 faded | cc |
| 7 | faded | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hung | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ones | amod |
| 14 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 time | conj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hung | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | the flowers | flowers's heads | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fade | past | the flowers not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the flowers not said here | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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