Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 22
Then the little elf flew in, and leaned his head on the delicate, fragrant walls.
Who acts: little elf · What happens: fly in, learn · To what, where: head, delicate fragrant walls
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 (little elf), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 flew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 elf | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 elf | amod |
| 4 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 flew | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 leaned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 leaned | cc |
| 9 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leaned | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 walls | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 walls | det |
| 14 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 walls | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 delicate | punct |
| 16 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 walls | amod |
| 17 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 leaned | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly in | past | the little elf | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | learn | past | the little elf not said here | elf's head | the delicate fragrant walls | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic |
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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