Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 81
Primroses and anemones sprung forth, and violets bloomed in the shade, while every blade of grass was full of strength and sap.
Who acts: blade · What happens: spring, bloom, be · To what, where: Primroses, violets, shade
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 (blade), 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 | Primroses | primrose | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 anemones | cc |
| 3 | anemones | anemone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Primroses | conj |
| 4 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Primroses | acl |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 sprung | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 violets | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 violets | cc |
| 8 | violets | violet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Primroses | conj |
| 9 | bloomed | bloom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 violets | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 shade | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shade | det |
| 12 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bloomed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 full | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 full | mark |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 blade | det |
| 16 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 full | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 grass | case |
| 18 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blade | nmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 full | cop |
| 20 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Primroses | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 strength | case |
| 22 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 full | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sap | cc |
| 24 | sap | SAP | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 strength | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Primroses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | participle | Primroses and anemones and violets not said here | forth property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bloom | participle | violets not said here | the shade | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shade=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | every blade of grass | of strength and sap; full property | 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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