Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 27
This is something different to being a mere plant and bearing flowers.
Who acts: This · What happens: be · To what, where: something
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 something | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 something | cop |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 4 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 something | amod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 plant | case |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 plant | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 plant | det |
| 8 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 plant | amod |
| 9 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 different | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flowers | cc |
| 11 | bearing | bearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flowers | compound |
| 12 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 plant | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 something | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | something | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | to a mere plant and bearing flowers | tree rules |
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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