Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 1

The flax was in full bloom; it had pretty little blue flowers as delicate as the wings of a moth, or even more so.

Who acts: flax · What happens: be, have · To what, where: full bloom, little blue flowers

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flax), 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	2 flax	det
2	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bloom	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bloom	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 bloom	case
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bloom	amod
6	bloom	bloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bloom	parataxis
10	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	11 little	advmod
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flowers	amod
12	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 flowers	amod
13	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	obj
14	as	as	ADP	_	15 delicate	case
15	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 had	obl
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 wings	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wings	det
18	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 delicate	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 moth	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 moth	det
21	moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wings	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 so	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 so	cc
24	even	even	ADV	_	25 more	advmod
25	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 so	advmod
26	so	so	ADV	_	9 had	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bloom	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the flax			full bloom			tree rules
2	have	past	flax	little blue flowers				as delicate	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient

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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