Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 24
One spring day the neighbor's boy brought him some field-flowers, and among them was one to which the root still adhered.
Who acts: boy, flowers, root · What happens: bring, be, adhere · To what, where: field flowers, sun
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 (boy, flowers, root), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 2 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | compound |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 neighbor | det |
| 5 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 boy | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 neighbor | case |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | nsubj |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 brought | obj |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 flowers | det |
| 11 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flowers | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 field | punct |
| 13 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 brought | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 adhered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 adhered | cc |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 one | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 one | cop |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 adhered | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 adhered | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 root | det |
| 23 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 adhered | nsubj |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 adhered | advmod |
| 25 | adhered | adhere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brought | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the neighbor's boy | some field flowers | sun | day | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination flower=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | past | flowers = flower | among one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | adhere | past | the root | still | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to which=Co-Theme |
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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