Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 70

The little elf of the rose followed it, and flew from flower to flower, telling each little spirit that dwelt in them the story of the murdered young man, whose head now formed part of the earth beneath them, and of the wicked brother and the poor sister. "

Who acts: little elf, little spirit · What happens: follow, fly, tell, dwell, murder, form · To what, where: plant, flower, little spirit, story, part · 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 (little elf, little spirit), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 elf	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 elf	amod
3	elf	elf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 followed	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 rose	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rose	det
6	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 elf	nmod
7	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 followed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 flew	cc
11	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 followed	parataxis
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 flower	case
13	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flew	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 flower	case
15	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flew	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 telling	punct
17	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 flew	conj
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 spirit	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 spirit	amod
20	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 telling	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 dwelt	nsubj
22	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 spirit	acl:relcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dwelt	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 story	det
26	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dwelt	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	31 man	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
29	murdered	murder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 man	amod
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 story	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 head	punct
33	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	34 head	nmod:poss
34	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 man	conj
35	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 formed	advmod
36	formed	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 telling	advcl
37	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 formed	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 earth	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 earth	det
40	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 part	nmod
41	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	42 them	case
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 earth	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 brother	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 brother	cc
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 brother	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 brother	det
47	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 brother	amod
48	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 followed	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 sister	cc
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 sister	det
51	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 sister	amod
52	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 brother	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	52 sister	punct
54	"	"	PUNCT	_	52 sister	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	the little elf of the rose	plant			of the wicked brother and the poor sister	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme of brother=Trajectory
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	tell speech: assert	gerund		each little spirit				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spirit=Recipient
4	dwell	past	each little spirit	the story of the murdered young man and the murdered young man and head's head			in roses = rose	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme story=Location
5	murder	participle						vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	form	past		part of the earth beneath man		now		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=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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