Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 16
He flew thither; but "hush!" two people were in the arbor,--a handsome young man and a beautiful lady.
Who acts: blossom, hush · What happens: fly, be · To what, where: arbor
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 (blossom, hush), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flew | nsubj |
| 2 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 2 flew | advmod |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 arbor | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 arbor | cc |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hush | punct |
| 7 | hush | hush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arbor | nsubj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 hush | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hush | punct |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 people | nummod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 arbor | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 arbor | cop |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 arbor | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 arbor | det |
| 15 | arbor | arbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flew | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 man | punct |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 man | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 19 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 arbor | appos |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 lady | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 lady | det |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lady | amod |
| 25 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 man | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | blossom | thither property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | hush | the arbor | 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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