Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 25
Here is a water-lily that he had plucked himself, and watered with salt tears--a lily of sweet water.
Who acts: water lily · What happens: be, pluck, water · To what, where: water lily
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water lily), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lily | det |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lily | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 water | punct |
| 6 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 plucked | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 plucked | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 plucked | aux |
| 10 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lily | acl:relcl |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 plucked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 watered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 watered | cc |
| 14 | watered | water | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 tears | case |
| 16 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tears | compound |
| 17 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 watered | obl |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 lily | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lily | det |
| 20 | lily | lily | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tears | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 22 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 water | amod |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lily | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a water lily | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pluck | past · perfect · passive | a water lily | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary himself=Theme | |||||
| 3 | water | past | a water lily not said here | with salt tears and a lily of sweet water | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tear=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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