Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 65
And one day she sat and leaned her head against the flower-pot, and the little elf of the rose found her asleep.
Who acts: girl, little elf · What happens: sit, learn, find · To what, where: head, 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 (girl, little elf), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sat | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 leaned | cc |
| 7 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaned | obj |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 pot | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pot | det |
| 12 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pot | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 flower | punct |
| 14 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 found | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 found | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 elf | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 elf | amod |
| 19 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 found | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 rose | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rose | det |
| 22 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 elf | nmod |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 found | obj |
| 25 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 found | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | girl | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | learn | past | girl not said here | girl's head | against the flower pot | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | |||
| 3 | find | past | the little elf of the rose | girl | asleep property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
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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