Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1, sentence 31

At all events they became flowers, because they had rested on Eliza's head, and on her heart.

Who acts: events · What happens: become, rest · To what, where: flowers, events, head

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (events), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 events	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 events	det
3	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 became	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 became	nsubj
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 became	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rested	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 rested	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 rested	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 rested	aux
11	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 became	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 head	case
13	Eliza	Eliza	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 head	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Eliza	case
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rested	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 heart	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 heart	cc
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 heart	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 heart	nmod:poss
20	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rested	parataxis
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	events = event	flowers		all events			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	rest	past · perfect · passive		events = event		Eliza's head			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on head=Location

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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