Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 2

The sun shone, and the showers watered it; and this was just as good for the flax as it is for little children to be washed and then kissed by their mother.

Who acts: sun, showers, this, flax · What happens: shine, water, be, wash, kiss · To what, where: sun

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 (sun, showers, this, 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 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shone	nsubj
3	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 watered	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 watered	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 showers	det
7	showers	shower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 watered	nsubj
8	watered	water	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shone	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 watered	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 good	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 good	cc
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 good	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 good	cop
14	just	just	ADV	_	16 good	advmod
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 good	advmod
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shone	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 flax	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 flax	det
19	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 good	obl
20	as	as	ADP	_	25 children	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 children	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 children	cop
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 children	case
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 children	amod
25	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shone	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	28 washed	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 washed	aux:pass
28	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 shone	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 kissed	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 kissed	advmod
31	kissed	kiss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 washed	conj
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 mother	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 mother	nmod:poss
34	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 kissed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shine	past	the sun				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	water	past	the showers	sun			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination
3	is	past	this			for the flax; good property	tree rules
4	is	present	flax			as little children	tree rules
5	wash	to-infinitive · passive					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»
6	kiss	participle			then	by showers's mother	vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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