Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 59

Every morning he flew to the window of the poor girl, and always found her weeping by the flower pot.

Who acts: elf, girl · What happens: fly, find, weep · To what, where: girl

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, 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 morning	det
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 window	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 window	det
7	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 girl	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
10	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 girl	amod
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 window	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 found	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 found	cc
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	15 found	advmod
15	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 found	obj
17	weeping	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 found	xcomp
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 pot	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pot	det
20	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pot	compound
21	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 weeping	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	elf		morning	to the window of the poor girl result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to window=Result
2	find	past	elf not said here	girl		always property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme
3	weep	gerund	girl not said here			by the flower pot	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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