Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 73

She held her apron before her: it was full of flowers; it was as if they sprung into life there, for the more she scattered around her, the more flowers did her apron contain.

Who acts: child, apron, more flowers · What happens: hold, be, scatter, do, contain · To what, where: apron, life

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 (child, apron, more flowers), 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 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 apron	nmod:poss
4	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obj
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 full	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 full	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 full	cop
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 held	parataxis
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 flowers	case
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 full	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 sprung	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sprung	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sprung	cop
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 sprung	mark
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 sprung	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sprung	nsubj
19	sprung	spring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 held	parataxis
20	into	into	ADP	_	21 life	case
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 sprung	obl
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 sprung	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 scattered	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 scattered	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 more	det
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 scattered	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 scattered	nsubj
28	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sprung	parataxis
29	around	around	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 scattered	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 did	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 flowers	det
33	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 flowers	amod
34	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 did	nsubj
35	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 scattered	conj
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 apron	nmod:poss
37	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 contain	nsubj
38	contain	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 did	ccomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	child	child's apron		before grass		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent apron=Theme before she=Location
2	is	past	apron				of flowers; full property	tree rules
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		apron	life; there		spring property	tree rules
4	scatter	past	child				around grass	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent around she=Destination
5	do	past	the more flowers					tree rules
6	contain	present	child's apron					vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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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