Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 10
The angel gathered also some beautiful flowers, as well as a few humble buttercups and heart's-ease.
Who acts: angel · What happens: gather · To what, where: beautiful flowers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (angel), 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 angel | det |
| 2 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gathered | nsubj |
| 3 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 flowers | advmod |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 flowers | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flowers | amod |
| 7 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gathered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 buttercups | punct |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 15 buttercups | cc |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 as | fixed |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 as | fixed |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 buttercups | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 buttercups | amod |
| 14 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 buttercups | amod |
| 15 | buttercups | buttercup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 flowers | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ease | cc |
| 17 | heart's | heart's | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ease | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 heart's | punct |
| 19 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flowers | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | the angel | some beautiful flowers as a few humble buttercups and heart's ease | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: 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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