Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 94
I have seen a bud on a rose-bush gradually, in the course of a few weeks, unfold its leaves till it became a rose in all its beauty; and, before I was aware of it, I beheld it blooming in rosy loveliness.
Who acts: I, bud · What happens: see, unfold, become, be, behold, bloom · To what, where: bud, rose bush, leaves, rose, rosy loveliness
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bud), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | aux |
| 3 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bud | det |
| 5 | bud | bud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seen | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 bush | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bush | det |
| 8 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bush | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 rose | punct |
| 10 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seen | obl |
| 11 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 3 seen | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 course | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 course | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 course | det |
| 15 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seen | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 weeks | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 weeks | det |
| 18 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 weeks | amod |
| 19 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 course | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 unfold | punct |
| 21 | unfold | unfold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seen | conj |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 23 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 unfold | obj |
| 24 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 26 became | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 became | nsubj |
| 26 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 unfold | advcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 rose | det |
| 28 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 became | xcomp |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 beauty | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 beauty | det:predet |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 32 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 rose | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 beheld | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 beheld | cc |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 and | punct |
| 36 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 39 aware | mark |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 aware | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 aware | cop |
| 39 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 beheld | advcl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 it | case |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 aware | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 aware | punct |
| 43 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 beheld | nsubj |
| 44 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | conj |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 beheld | obj |
| 46 | blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 beheld | advcl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 loveliness | case |
| 48 | rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 loveliness | amod |
| 49 | loveliness | loveliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 blooming | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | I | a bud | a rose bush | in the course of a few weeks; gradually property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bud=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | unfold | infinitive | I not said here | course's leaves | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | ||||
| 3 | become | past | bud | a rose in bud's beauty | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | I | of bud; aware property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | behold | past | I | bud | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | bloom | gerund | I not said here | rosy loveliness | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in loveliness=Location |
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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