Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 10
When spring came, the plant appeared in full bloom: a more beautiful object than any other plant in the forest.
Who acts: spring, plant · What happens: come, appear · To what, where: full bloom
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spring, plant), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 appeared | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 plant | det |
| 6 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appeared | nsubj |
| 7 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bloom | case |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bloom | amod |
| 10 | bloom | bloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appeared | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 object | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 object | det |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 beautiful | advmod |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 object | amod |
| 15 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bloom | appos |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 plant | case |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 plant | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 plant | amod |
| 19 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 object | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 forest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forest | det |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 plant | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | spring | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | appear | past | the plant | full bloom | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bloom=Location |
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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