Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 26
And the flower had been planted by a fortunate hand, for it grew, put forth fresh shoots, and blossomed every year.
Who acts: fortunate hand, hand · What happens: plant, grow, put, blossom · To what, where: flower, fresh shoots
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 (fortunate hand, hand), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 planted | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flower | det |
| 3 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 planted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 planted | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 planted | aux:pass |
| 6 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 hand | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hand | det |
| 9 | fortunate | fortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hand | amod |
| 10 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 planted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grew | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 grew | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 grew | nsubj |
| 14 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 planted | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 grew | advcl |
| 17 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 16 put | advmod |
| 18 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shoots | amod |
| 19 | shoots | shoot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 put | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 blossomed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 blossomed | cc |
| 22 | blossomed | blossom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 grew | conj |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 year | det |
| 24 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 blossomed | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 planted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant | past · perfect · passive | a fortunate hand | the flower | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | hand | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | hand not said here | fresh shoots | forth property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shoot=Goal | |||
| 4 | blossom | participle | hand not said here | year | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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