Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 58
After a while he found another rose, which became his home, for among its delicate fragrant leaves he could dwell in safety.
Who acts: elf, rose · What happens: find, become, dwell · To what, where: home, delicate fragrant leaves, safety · 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 (elf, rose), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 rose | det |
| 7 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 became | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 became | nsubj |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | ccomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 home | nmod:poss |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leaves | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 leaves | case |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 leaves | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 17 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 leaves | amod |
| 18 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 leaves | amod |
| 19 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 became | xcomp |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 dwell | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 dwell | aux |
| 22 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 leaves | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 safety | case |
| 24 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dwell | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | elf | while | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | another rose | elf's home | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dwell | could | elf | home's delicate fragrant leaves not said here | safety | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme leaf=Location |
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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