Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 72
The little maiden strewed flowers in her path.
Who acts: little maiden · What happens: strew · To what, where: flowers, path
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Year. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little maiden), 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 | 3 maiden | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 maiden | amod |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | strewed | strew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 maiden | acl |
| 5 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 strewed | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 path | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 path | nmod:poss |
| 8 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strewed | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strew | participle | the little maiden not said here | flowers | child's path | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme in path=Destination |
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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