Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 69
A thistle-flower was painted in the buttonhole of the bridegroom.
What happens: paint · To what, where: thistle flower, buttonhole
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 flower | det |
| 2 | thistle | thistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flower | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 thistle | punct |
| 4 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 painted | aux:pass |
| 6 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 buttonhole | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 buttonhole | det |
| 9 | buttonhole | buttonhole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 painted | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 bridegroom | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bridegroom | det |
| 12 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buttonhole | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 painted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | past · passive | a thistle flower | the buttonhole of the bridegroom | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in buttonhole=Destination |
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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