Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 15

The blossoms looked like large painted horns; and he thought to himself, he would go and sleep in one of these till the morning.

Who acts: blossoms, blossom · What happens: look, paint, think, go, sleep, till · To what, where: blossom · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (blossoms, blossom), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 blossoms	det
2	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 horns	case
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horns	amod
6	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 horns	amod
7	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 looked	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thought	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thought	nsubj
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 thought	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thought	ccomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sleep	cc
19	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 go	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 one	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 sleep	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 these	case
23	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 one	nmod
24	till	till	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 go	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 morning	det
26	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 till	obl:unmarked
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the blossoms			like large painted horns	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	paint	participle					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past	blossom	blossom			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	go	would	blossom				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sleep	infinitive	blossom not said here			in one of these	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in one=Location
6	till	present	blossom not said here		morning		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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