Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 20
In the garden grow roses; the mistress of the house is herself the finest rose petal, she beams with joy, the joy of good deeds: however, not done in the wide world, but in her heart, and what is preserved there is not forgotten.
Who acts: mistress · What happens: grow, be, beam, not do, preserve, not forget · To what, where: roses, garden, finest rose petal, wide world, good deeds
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 garden | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 garden | det |
| 3 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grow | obl |
| 4 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grow | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 petal | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mistress | det |
| 8 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 petal | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mistress | nmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 petal | cop |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 petal | nsubj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 petal | det |
| 15 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 petal | amod |
| 16 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 petal | compound |
| 17 | petal | petal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grow | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 beams | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 beams | nsubj |
| 20 | beams | beam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 petal | acl:relcl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 joy | case |
| 22 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 beams | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 joy | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 joy | det |
| 25 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 petal | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 deeds | case |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 deeds | amod |
| 28 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 joy | nmod |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 done | punct |
| 30 | however | however | ADV | _ | 33 done | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 however | punct |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 done | advmod |
| 33 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 grow | parataxis |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 world | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 world | det |
| 36 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 world | amod |
| 37 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 done | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 heart | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 heart | cc |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 heart | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 heart | nmod:poss |
| 42 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 done | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 preserved | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 preserved | cc |
| 45 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 47 preserved | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 preserved | aux:pass |
| 47 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 done | parataxis |
| 48 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 51 forgotten | expl |
| 49 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 50 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 51 forgotten | advmod |
| 51 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 preserved | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | roses | the garden | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rose=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the mistress of the house | the finest rose petal | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | beam | present | mistress | the finest rose petal not said here | with joy | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent petal=Theme | |||
| 4 | not do | participle | the wide world | in mistress's heart; however property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | preserve | present · passive | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | ||||||
| 6 | not forget | present · passive | there | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | joy | good deeds | nom joy «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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