Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 56

This flower had shot up from near the roots; the wind blew cold over it, and the colors vanished, and the flower grew in size, and looked like a silvered sunflower.

Who acts: wind, colors, flower · What happens: shoot up, blow, vanish, grow, look, silver · To what, where: flower, roots, size

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 (wind, colors, 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 flower	det
2	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shot	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shot	aux
4	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 shot	compound:prt
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 roots	case
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 roots	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roots	det
9	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shot	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 blew	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wind	det
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blew	nsubj
13	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shot	parataxis
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 blew	xcomp
15	over	over	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cold	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 vanished	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 vanished	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 colors	det
20	colors	color	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 vanished	nsubj
21	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 blew	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 grew	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 grew	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 flower	det
25	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grew	nsubj
26	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 vanished	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 size	case
28	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grew	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 looked	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 looked	cc
31	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 blew	conj
32	like	like	ADP	_	35 sunflower	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 sunflower	det
34	silvered	silver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 sunflower	amod
35	sunflower	sunflower	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 looked	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shoot up	past · perfect · passive		this flower	the roots		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	blow	past	the wind			cold property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	vanish	past	the colors				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	grow	past	the flower		size		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in size=Location
5	look	past	the wind not said here			like a silvered sunflower	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	silver	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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