Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 11

The peonies puffed themselves up in order to be larger than the roses, but size is not everything!

Who acts: peonies, size · What happens: puff up, be, not be · To what, where: peonies, everything

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 (peonies, size), 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 peonies	det
2	peonies	peony	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 puffed	nsubj
3	puffed	puff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 puffed	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 puffed	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	10 larger	case
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 in	fixed
8	to	to	PART	_	10 larger	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 larger	cop
10	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 puffed	obl
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 roses	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 roses	det
13	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 larger	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 everything	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 everything	cc
16	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 everything	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 everything	cop
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 everything	advmod
19	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 puffed	parataxis
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 puffed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	puff up	past	the peonies	peonies = peony		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Source
2	is	to-infinitive			than the roses; large property	tree rules
3	not is a	present	size	everything		tree rules

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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