Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 34
Blooming shrubs and flowers in pots were ranged around; and thus a little garden arose in the square.
Who acts: Blooming, little garden · What happens: bloom, range around, arise · To what, where: shrubs, pots, square
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blooming, little garden), 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 | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 ranged | csubj:pass |
| 2 | shrubs | shrub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Blooming | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 flowers | cc |
| 4 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 shrubs | conj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 pots | case |
| 6 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Blooming | obl |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ranged | aux:pass |
| 8 | ranged | range | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | around | around | ADV | _ | 8 ranged | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 ranged | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 arose | cc |
| 12 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 16 arose | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 garden | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 garden | amod |
| 15 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 arose | nsubj |
| 16 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ranged | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 square | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 square | det |
| 19 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 arose | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ranged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloom | gerund | shrubs and flowers | pots | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location shrub=Theme | ||||
| 2 | range around | past · passive | Blooming | around property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location» | ||||
| 3 | arise | past | a little garden | the square | thus property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in square=Location |
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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