Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 89

"A fairy tale flower," said another, "a many-colored lotus-plant, which spreads out its green leaves like a velvet carpet over the sand.

Who acts: fairy tale flower, colored lotus plant · What happens: say, color, spread out · To what, where: colored lotus plant, green leaves · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (fairy tale flower, colored lotus plant), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 flower	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 flower	det
3	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flower	amod
4	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flower	compound
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flower	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 flower	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 plant	det
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 plant	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 plant	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 plant	det
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 colored	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 many	punct
15	colored	color	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 plant	amod
16	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 plant	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 lotus	punct
18	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spreads	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 spreads	nsubj
21	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 plant	acl:relcl
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 spreads	compound:prt
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 leaves	nmod:poss
24	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 leaves	amod
25	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 spreads	obj
26	like	like	ADP	_	29 carpet	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 carpet	det
28	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carpet	compound
29	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 leaves	nmod
30	over	over	ADP	_	32 sand	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sand	det
32	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carpet	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a fairy tale flower	another colored lotus plant		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent plant=Topic
2	color in a quote	participle				vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	spread out in a quote	present	another colored lotus plant	wonder's green leaves	like a velvet carpet over the sand	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leaf=Theme

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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