Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 29
She went to the tulips and began cutting them off, one after another. "
Who acts: girl · What happens: go, begin, cut off · To what, where: tulips
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 (girl), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 tulips | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tulips | det |
| 5 | tulips | tulip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 began | cc |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 began | xcomp |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cutting | obj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 cutting | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 cutting | parataxis |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 another | case |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 one | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | girl | the tulips | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tulip=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | girl not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | cut off | gerund | girl not said here | tulips = tulip | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector they=Eventuality |
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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