Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 3
They look much prettier for it, and so did the flax.
Who acts: showers · What happens: look, do · To what, where: flax
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 (showers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 prettier | advmod |
| 4 | prettier | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 look | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 prettier | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 did | cc |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 did | advmod |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 look | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flax | det |
| 12 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 did | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | showers = shower | pretty property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the flax | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flax=Eventuality |
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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