Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 62
Involuntarily he seized one of the nearest flowers; it was a little, simple daisy.
Who acts: heart, bench · What happens: seize, be · To what, where: one, little simple daisy
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 (heart, bench), 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 | Involuntarily | involuntarily | ADV | _ | 3 seized | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 seized | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 flowers | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flowers | det |
| 7 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 flowers | amod |
| 8 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 daisy | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 daisy | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 daisy | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 daisy | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 daisy | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 little | punct |
| 15 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 daisy | amod |
| 16 | daisy | daisy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seized | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | heart | one of the nearest flowers | involuntarily property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | bench | a little simple daisy | tree rules |
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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