Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 6
During the whole day he enjoyed himself in the warm sunshine, flew from flower to flower, and danced on the wings of the flying butterflies.
Who acts: prettiest · What happens: enjoy, fly, dance · To what, where: prettiest, warm sunshine, flower, wings
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 (prettiest), 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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enjoyed | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 enjoyed | nsubj |
| 6 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 enjoyed | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sunshine | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sunshine | det |
| 10 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sunshine | amod |
| 11 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enjoyed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flew | punct |
| 13 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 enjoyed | parataxis |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 flower | case |
| 15 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flew | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 flower | case |
| 17 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flew | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 danced | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 danced | cc |
| 20 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 flew | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 wings | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wings | det |
| 23 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 danced | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 butterflies | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 butterflies | det |
| 26 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 butterflies | amod |
| 27 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 wings | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 enjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy | past | prettiest = pretty | prettiest = pretty | the warm sunshine | day | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | fly | past | flower | to flower | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from flower=Initial_Location to flower=Destination | ||||
| 3 | dance | participle | the wings of the flying butterflies | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wing=Location | |||||
| 4 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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