Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 1
In the midst of a garden grew a rose-tree, in full blossom, and in the prettiest of all the roses lived an elf.
Who acts: prettiest · What happens: grow, live · To what, where: rose tree, midst, elf
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prettiest), 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 midst | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 midst | det |
| 3 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grew | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 garden | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 midst | nmod |
| 7 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 9 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 rose | punct |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grew | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 blossom | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 blossom | case |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 blossom | amod |
| 15 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grew | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lived | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lived | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 prettiest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prettiest | det |
| 20 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 lived | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 roses | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 roses | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 roses | det |
| 24 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 prettiest | obl |
| 25 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grew | conj |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 elf | det |
| 27 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lived | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | a rose tree | the midst of a garden | in full blossom | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | the prettiest | a elf | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme elf=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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