Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 70

They spoke about this, and also about the thistle-flower they brought, the last thistle-flower, now gleaming like silver, whose picture was carved on the frame.

Who acts: flowers · What happens: speak, bring, gleam, carve · To what, where: thistle flower, picture, frame · Speech: someone speaks here

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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spoke	nsubj
2	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 this	case
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 spoke	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flower	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 flower	cc
7	also	also	ADV	_	12 flower	advmod
8	about	about	ADP	_	12 flower	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 flower	det
10	thistle	thistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flower	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 thistle	punct
12	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spoke	obl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 brought	nsubj
14	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 flower	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flower	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 flower	det
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 flower	amod
18	thistle	thistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flower	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 thistle	punct
20	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flower	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gleaming	punct
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 gleaming	advmod
23	gleaming	gleam	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 spoke	advcl
24	like	like	ADP	_	25 silver	case
25	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gleaming	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 carved	punct
27	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	28 picture	nmod:poss
28	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carved	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 carved	aux:pass
30	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 gleaming	parataxis
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 frame	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 frame	det
33	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carved	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	flowers = flower				about this; about the thistle flower and the last thistle flower	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about this=Topic
2	bring	past	flowers = flower	the thistle flower and the last thistle flower not said here				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent flower=Theme
3	gleam	gerund	flowers = flower not said here			now	like silver	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	carve	past · passive		picture	the frame			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on frame=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/189/70/