Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 25
This he carefully planted in a flower-pot, and placed in a window-seat near his bed.
What happens: plant, place · To what, where: This, flower pot, window seat
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: 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 planted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 planted | nsubj |
| 3 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 4 planted | advmod |
| 4 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pot | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pot | det |
| 7 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pot | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 flower | punct |
| 9 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 planted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 placed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 placed | cc |
| 12 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 planted | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 seat | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 seat | det |
| 15 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seat | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 window | punct |
| 17 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 placed | obl |
| 18 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 bed | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 bed | nmod:poss |
| 20 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seat | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 planted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant | participle · passive | This | a flower pot | carefully property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in pot=Destination | |||
| 2 | place | participle | a window seat near boy's bed | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in seat=Destination |
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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