Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 7
Blooming flowers ornament the staircases, and soft carpets the floors.
Who acts: Blooming flowers, soft carpets · What happens: bloom, ornament, floor · To what, where: staircases
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blooming flowers, soft carpets), 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 | Blooming | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 flowers | amod |
| 2 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ornament | nsubj |
| 3 | ornament | ornament | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 staircases | det |
| 5 | staircases | staircase | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ornament | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 floors | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 floors | cc |
| 8 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 carpets | amod |
| 9 | carpets | carpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 floors | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 floors | det |
| 11 | floors | floor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ornament | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ornament | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloom | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | ornament | present | Blooming flowers | the staircases | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent staircase=Destination | ||||
| 3 | floor | soft carpets | 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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