Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 33

And this poor flower, withered and faded as it is, we have added to our nosegay, because it gave more real joy than the most beautiful flower in the garden of a queen."

Who acts: length, we · What happens: wither, fade, be, add, give · To what, where: poor flower, more real joy, garden

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 (length, we), 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 withered	cc
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 flower	det
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flower	amod
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 withered	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 withered	punct
6	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 faded	cc
8	faded	fade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 withered	conj
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 is	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 is	nsubj
11	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 faded	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 added	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 added	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 added	aux
15	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 withered	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 nosegay	case
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 nosegay	nmod:poss
18	nosegay	nosegay	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 added	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gave	punct
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 gave	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gave	nsubj
22	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 added	conj
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 joy	amod
24	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 joy	amod
25	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obj
26	than	than	ADP	_	30 flower	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 flower	det
28	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	29 beautiful	advmod
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 flower	amod
30	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 garden	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 garden	det
33	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gave	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 queen	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 queen	det
36	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 garden	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 withered	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 withered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wither	participle · passive		this poor flower			tree rules
2	fade	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	be	present	length				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	add speech: assert	present · perfect	we			to our nosegay	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent to nosegay=Co-Patient
5	give	past	length	more real joy	the garden of a queen	than the beautiful flower	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=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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