Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 53
As soon as she was in her room, she took the largest flower-pot she could find, and in this she placed the head of the dead man, covered it up with earth, and planted the twig of jasmine in it.
Who acts: girl · What happens: be, take, find, place, cover up, plant · To what, where: room, largest flower pot, head, this, twig
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), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 took | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 room | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 room | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 room | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 room | nmod:poss |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 room | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pot | det |
| 13 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 pot | amod |
| 14 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pot | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 flower | punct |
| 16 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 find | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | aux |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 pot | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 placed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 placed | cc |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 this | case |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 placed | obl |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 placed | nsubj |
| 25 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 head | det |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 placed | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 man | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 man | det |
| 30 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 man | amod |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 head | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 covered | punct |
| 33 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 covered | obj |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 covered | compound:prt |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 earth | case |
| 37 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 covered | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 planted | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 planted | cc |
| 40 | planted | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 twig | det |
| 42 | twig | twig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 planted | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 jasmine | case |
| 44 | jasmine | jasmine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 twig | nmod |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 it | case |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 planted | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | girl | girl's room | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | girl | the largest flower pot | soon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme | |||
| 3 | find | could | girl | the largest flower pot not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Topic | ||||
| 4 | place | past | girl | the head of the dead man | this | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in this=Destination | |||
| 5 | cover up | past | girl not said here | head | with earth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with earth=Theme | |||
| 6 | plant | past | girl not said here | the twig of jasmine | head | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent twig=Theme in it=Destination |
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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