Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 10

In the garden close by grew many large and magnificent flowers, and, strange to say, the less fragrance they had the haughtier and prouder they were.

Who acts: garden, less fragrance, flowers · What happens: grow, say, have, be · To what, where: many large flowers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garden, less fragrance, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 garden	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 garden	det
3	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	nsubj
4	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 garden	amod
5	by	by	ADP	_	4 close	fixed
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 flowers	amod
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 flowers	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 magnificent	cc
10	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 large	conj
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grew	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 strange	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 strange	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 strange	punct
15	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grew	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 say	mark
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 strange	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fragrance	det
20	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 fragrance	amod
21	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	nsubj
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grew	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 haughtier	det
25	haughtier	haughty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 had	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 prouder	cc
27	prouder	proud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 haughtier	conj
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 were	nsubj
29	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 haughtier	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the garden	many large flowers		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the garden not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	the less fragrance		haughty property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	be	past	flowers = flower			vn exist-47.1 «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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