Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 52
"I will keep this," said she; and as soon as she had covered the body again with the earth and leaves, she took the head and a little sprig of jasmine that bloomed in the wood, near the spot where he was buried, and carried them home with her.
Who acts: girl, jasmine · What happens: keep, say, cover, leave, take, bloom · To what, where: this, girl, head, spot, wood, eye · 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 (girl, jasmine), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 keep | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 covered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 covered | cc |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 soon | advmod |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 covered | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 covered | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 covered | aux |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 body | det |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 covered | obj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 covered | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 earth | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 earth | det |
| 23 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 covered | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 leaves | cc |
| 25 | leaves | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 covered | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 took | punct |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 took | nsubj |
| 28 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 head | det |
| 30 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 took | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sprig | cc |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 sprig | det |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 sprig | amod |
| 34 | sprig | sprig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 head | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 jasmine | case |
| 36 | jasmine | jasmine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sprig | nmod |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 bloomed | nsubj |
| 38 | bloomed | bloom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 jasmine | acl:relcl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 wood | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 wood | det |
| 41 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bloomed | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 spot | punct |
| 43 | near | near | ADP | _ | 45 spot | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 spot | det |
| 45 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 took | obl |
| 46 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 49 buried | advmod |
| 47 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 48 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 buried | aux:pass |
| 49 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 spot | acl:relcl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 carried | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 carried | cc |
| 52 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 took | conj |
| 53 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 carried | obj |
| 54 | home | home | ADV | _ | 52 carried | advmod |
| 55 | with | with | ADP | _ | 56 her | case |
| 56 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 carried | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | future | girl | this | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cover | past · perfect · passive | girl | again | with the earth; soon property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | leave | present | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | take | past | girl | the head and a little sprig of jasmine | the spot | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 6 | bloom | participle | jasmine | the wood | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location | ||||
| 7 | bury | past · passive | eye | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 8 | carry | past | girl not said here | lips = lip | with girl; home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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