Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 65
The struggles of life which arouse sensations in the bosom have their type in the tiny flowers.
Who acts: struggles, life · What happens: arouse, have, struggle, type · To what, where: sensations, bosom, type, tiny flowers
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 (struggles, life), 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 struggles | det |
| 2 | struggles | struggle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 life | case |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 struggles | nmod |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 arouse | nsubj |
| 6 | arouse | arouse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 struggles | acl:relcl |
| 7 | sensations | sensation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 arouse | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bosom | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bosom | det |
| 10 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arouse | obl |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 type | nmod:poss |
| 13 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 flowers | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 flowers | det |
| 16 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 flowers | amod |
| 17 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arouse | present | the struggles of life | sensations | the bosom | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sensation=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | have | present | the struggles of life | struggles's type | the tiny flowers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent type=Patient | |||
| 3 | struggle | life | nom struggle «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | type | struggles = struggle | nom type «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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