Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Year, sentence 90
The careful willows had, however, covered their blossoms with woolly gloves; and this carefulness is rather tedious.
Who acts: careful willows, carefulness · What happens: have, cover, be · To what, where: blossoms
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 (careful willows, carefulness), 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 willows | det |
| 2 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 willows | amod |
| 3 | willows | willow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 covered | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 covered | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 8 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | ccomp |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 blossoms | nmod:poss |
| 10 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 covered | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 gloves | case |
| 12 | woolly | woolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gloves | amod |
| 13 | gloves | glove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 covered | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 tedious | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tedious | cc |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 carefulness | det |
| 17 | carefulness | carefulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tedious | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 tedious | cop |
| 19 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 20 tedious | advmod |
| 20 | tedious | tedious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 had | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the careful willows | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cover | past | the careful willows not said here | willows's blossoms | with woolly gloves; however property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent blossom=Destination with glove=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | this carefulness | tedious 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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