Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 74
Eagerly she showered snowy blossoms over apple and peach-trees, so that they stood in full beauty before even their green leaves had burst from the bud.
Who acts: child, flowers · What happens: shower, stand, burst · To what, where: snowy blossoms, apple, full beauty, green leaves, bud
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, 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 | Eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 3 showered | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 showered | nsubj |
| 3 | showered | shower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blossoms | amod |
| 5 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 showered | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 apple | case |
| 7 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 showered | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 trees | cc |
| 9 | peach | peach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trees | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 peach | punct |
| 11 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 apple | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stood | punct |
| 13 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 stood | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 so | fixed |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stood | nsubj |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 showered | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 beauty | case |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 beauty | amod |
| 19 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stood | obl |
| 20 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 stood | advmod |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 leaves | advmod |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 23 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 leaves | amod |
| 24 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 burst | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 burst | aux |
| 26 | burst | burst | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 stood | parataxis |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 bud | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bud | det |
| 29 | bud | bud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 burst | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 showered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shower | past | child | snowy blossoms | apple and peach trees | eagerly property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blossom=Theme over apple=Destination | ||
| 2 | stand | past | flowers = flower | full beauty | before property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in beauty=Location | |||
| 3 | burst | past · perfect · passive | flowers's green leaves | the bud | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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