Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 80
Then a number of tiny beings, as many in number as the flowers on the flax had been, and invisible to mortal eyes, floated above them.
What happens: float
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 many | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 number | det |
| 3 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Then | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 beings | case |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beings | amod |
| 6 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 number | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 many | case |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 number | case |
| 11 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 many | nmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 flowers | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 flowers | det |
| 14 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 many | nmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 flax | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 flax | det |
| 17 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 been | obl |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 been | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 flowers | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 invisible | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 invisible | cc |
| 22 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 many | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 eyes | case |
| 24 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 eyes | amod |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 invisible | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 floated | punct |
| 27 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 invisible | conj |
| 28 | above | above | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 floated | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 many | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | participle | above flowers = flower | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above they=Trajectory |
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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