Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 2
As he was kissing the flower a very little leaf fell from it and sunk down into the soft earth in the middle of a wood.
Who acts: air · What happens: kiss, fall, sunk down · To what, where: flower, soft earth
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 (air), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 kissing | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kissing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kissing | aux |
| 4 | kissing | kiss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 fell | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flower | det |
| 6 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kissing | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 leaf | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 little | advmod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 leaf | amod |
| 10 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kissing | obj |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fell | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sunk | cc |
| 15 | sunk | sunk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fell | conj |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 sunk | advmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 earth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 earth | det |
| 19 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 earth | amod |
| 20 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sunk | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 middle | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 middle | det |
| 23 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 earth | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 wood | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 wood | det |
| 26 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 middle | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past · progressive | air | the flower | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | flower | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from it=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | sunk down | infinitive | the soft earth in the middle of a wood | down property | 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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