Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 46
The leaves fell from the trees, and the few flowers left had deeper colors and less scent.
Who acts: leaves, few flowers · What happens: fall, leave, have · To what, where: trees, few flowers, deeper colors
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 (leaves, few 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 leaves | det |
| 2 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 trees | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trees | det |
| 6 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fell | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flowers | det |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flowers | amod |
| 11 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | nsubj |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 flowers | acl |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 14 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 colors | amod |
| 15 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 scent | cc |
| 17 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 scent | amod |
| 18 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 colors | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the leaves | the trees | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tree=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | the few flowers not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | the few flowers | deeper colors and less scent | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent color=Patient |
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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