Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 31
The daughters were young and beautiful--three charming blossoms--a rose, a lily, and a white hyacinth.
Who acts: daughters · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters), 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 daughters | det |
| 2 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 young | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 young | cop |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 beautiful | cc |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 young | conj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 blossoms | punct |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 blossoms | nummod |
| 9 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blossoms | compound |
| 10 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 young | obl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 rose | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 rose | det |
| 13 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blossoms | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lily | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 lily | det |
| 16 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blossoms | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hyacinth | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hyacinth | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hyacinth | det |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hyacinth | amod |
| 21 | hyacinth | hyacinth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 young | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the daughters | three charming blossoms and a rose and a lily obl; young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the daughters not said here | 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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