Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 78
When the morning came, and as soon as the window was opened, the rose elf, with the queen bee, and the whole swarm of bees, rushed in to kill him.
Who acts: morning · What happens: come, open, rush in, kill · To what, where: rose elf, window, whole swarm, elf
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 (morning), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 elf | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 elf | cc |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 soon | advmod |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 elf | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 opened | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 window | det |
| 11 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 opened | aux:pass |
| 13 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 soon | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 elf | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 elf | det |
| 16 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 elf | compound |
| 17 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bee | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 bee | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bee | det |
| 21 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bee | compound |
| 22 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 elf | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 swarm | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 swarm | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 swarm | det |
| 26 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 swarm | amod |
| 27 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 bees | case |
| 29 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 swarm | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 rushed | punct |
| 31 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 swarm | acl |
| 32 | in | in | ADV | _ | 31 rushed | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 kill | mark |
| 34 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 rushed | advcl |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 kill | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the morning | the rose elf and the queen bee | the whole swarm of bees obl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | open | past · passive | the window | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rush in | participle | the whole swarm of bees not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | kill | to-infinitive | elf | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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