Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 3
There was a little flower garden with painted wooden palings in front of it; close by was a ditch, on its fresh green bank grew a little daisy; the sun shone as warmly and brightly upon it as on the magnificent garden flowers, and therefore it thrived well.
Who acts: little flower garden, fresh green bank, sun · What happens: be, paint, grow, shine, thrive · To what, where: little daisy, magnificent garden flowers
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 (little flower garden, fresh green bank, sun), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 garden | amod |
| 5 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 garden | compound |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 palings | case |
| 8 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 palings | amod |
| 9 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 palings | amod |
| 10 | palings | paling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 garden | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 front | case |
| 12 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 palings | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 front | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 close | punct |
| 16 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 was | advcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 ditch | case |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 ditch | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ditch | det |
| 20 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 close | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 grew | punct |
| 22 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 27 grew | mark |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bank | nmod:poss |
| 24 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bank | amod |
| 25 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bank | amod |
| 26 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 grew | nsubj |
| 27 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 daisy | det |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 daisy | amod |
| 30 | daisy | daisy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 grew | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 shone | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sun | det |
| 33 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 shone | nsubj |
| 34 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 35 | as | as | ADV | _ | 36 warmly | advmod |
| 36 | warmly | warmly | ADV | _ | 34 shone | advmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 brightly | cc |
| 38 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 36 warmly | conj |
| 39 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 shone | obl |
| 41 | as | as | ADV | _ | 46 flowers | advmod |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 flowers | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 flowers | det |
| 44 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 flowers | amod |
| 45 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 flowers | compound |
| 46 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 shone | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 thrived | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 thrived | cc |
| 49 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 51 thrived | advmod |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 thrived | nsubj |
| 51 | thrived | thrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 shone | conj |
| 52 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 51 thrived | advmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a little flower garden with painted wooden palings in front of front | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | by a ditch | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | grow | past | garden's fresh green bank | a little daisy | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location daisy=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shine | past | the sun | the magnificent garden flowers | upon garden; warmly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Location | |||
| 6 | thrive | past | sun | therefore, well property | 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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