Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 27
He could feel through the leaf how hot the lips of the young man were, and the rose had opened, as if from the heat of the noonday sun.
Who acts: elf, lips, noonday sun. · What happens: feel, be, open, heat · To what, where: leaf, rose
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 (elf, lips, noonday sun.), 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 | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 feel | aux |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 leaf | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 leaf | det |
| 6 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feel | obl |
| 7 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 hot | advmod |
| 8 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feel | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lips | det |
| 10 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hot | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lips | nmod |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hot | cop |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 opened | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 opened | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rose | det |
| 19 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 opened | aux |
| 21 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 feel | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 heat | punct |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 heat | case |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 heat | mark |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 heat | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 heat | det |
| 27 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feel | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 sun. | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sun. | det |
| 30 | noonday | noonday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 sun. | compound |
| 31 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 heat | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | could | elf | the leaf | as the heat of the noonday sun. | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent as heat=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the lips of the young man | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | open | past · perfect · passive | the rose | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | heat | the noonday sun. | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
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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