Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 68

And the jasmine opened its large white bells, and spread forth its sweet fragrance; it had no other way of showing its grief for the dead.

Who acts: jasmine, other way · What happens: open, spread, have, show · To what, where: large white bells, sweet fragrance, other way, grief

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 (jasmine, other way), 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	_	4 opened	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jasmine	det
3	jasmine	jasmine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 opened	nsubj
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bells	nmod:poss
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bells	amod
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bells	amod
8	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 opened	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spread	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 spread	cc
11	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	conj
12	forth	forth	ADV	_	11 spread	advmod
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fragrance	nmod:poss
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fragrance	amod
15	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spread	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	conj
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 way	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 way	amod
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
22	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 showing	mark
23	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 way	acl
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 grief	nmod:poss
25	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 showing	obj
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 dead	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 dead	det
28	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 showing	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	open	past	the jasmine	jasmine's large white bells		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme
2	spread	past	the jasmine not said here	jasmine's sweet fragrance	forth property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fragrance=Theme
3	have	past	jasmine	no other way		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
4	show	gerund	no other way not said here	jasmine's grief	for the dead	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grief=Recipient

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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