Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 80
The thyme blossomed in fresh fragrance.
Who acts: thyme · What happens: blossom · To what, where: fresh fragrance
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 (thyme), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg27200:14920): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 thyme | det |
| 2 | thyme | thyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blossomed | nsubj |
| 3 | blossomed | blossom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 fragrance | case |
| 5 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fragrance | amod |
| 6 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blossomed | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blossomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blossom | past | the thyme | fresh fragrance | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fragrance=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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