Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 29
The flower entwined itself even in his dreams--for him it bloomed, for him spread its perfume.
Who acts: flower, boy, hand · What happens: entwine, bloom, spread, dream, perfume · To what, where: hand, dreams, boy, perfume
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 (flower, boy, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 flower | det |
| 2 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entwined | nsubj |
| 3 | entwined | entwine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 entwined | obj |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 dreams | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 dreams | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dreams | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 entwined | obl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 bloomed | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bloomed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bloomed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | bloomed | bloom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 entwined | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spread | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 spread | mark |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 spread | nsubj |
| 17 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bloomed | conj |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 perfume | nmod:poss |
| 19 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spread | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entwined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entwine | past | the flower | hand | boy's dreams | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient | |||
| 2 | bloom | participle · passive | boy | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spread | past | boy | hand's perfume | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location perfume=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dream | boy | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | perfume | hand | nom perfume «cognition transitive»: poss=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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