Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 39
She always had a sprig or a few blossoms in water, let the winter be ever so severe.
Who acts: lady · What happens: have, let, be · To what, where: sprig
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sprig | det |
| 5 | sprig | sprig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 blossoms | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 blossoms | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 blossoms | amod |
| 9 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sprig | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blossoms | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 winter | det |
| 15 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 let | obj |
| 16 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 let | xcomp |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 severe | advmod |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 severe | advmod |
| 19 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 be | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | lady | a sprig or a few blossoms in water | always property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sprig=Patient | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | lady not said here | winter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | infinitive | lady not said here | severe property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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