Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 25
But the tulips stood more stiffly than ever, their faces were pointed and red, because they were vexed.
Who acts: tulips, faces · What happens: stand, be, vex · To what, where: faces
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 (tulips, faces), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 stood | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tulips | det |
| 3 | tulips | tulip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 stiffly | advmod |
| 6 | stiffly | stiffly | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 ever | case |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 stiffly | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pointed | punct |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 faces | nmod:poss |
| 11 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pointed | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pointed | cop |
| 13 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 red | cc |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pointed | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 vexed | punct |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 vexed | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 vexed | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 vexed | aux:pass |
| 20 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stood | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the tulips | stiffly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | tulips's faces | pointed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | tulips's faces not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | vex | past · passive | faces = face | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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