Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 24
Gladly would she have plucked a flower, but she could not overcome her reluctance to break one off.
Who acts: heart · What happens: pluck, not overcome, break off · To what, where: flower, reluctance, one
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 (heart), 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 | Gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 5 plucked | advmod |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 plucked | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 plucked | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 plucked | aux |
| 5 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 flower | det |
| 7 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plucked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 overcome | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 overcome | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 overcome | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 overcome | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 overcome | advmod |
| 13 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 plucked | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 reluctance | nmod:poss |
| 15 | reluctance | reluctance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 overcome | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 break | mark |
| 17 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 overcome | advcl |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 break | obj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 break | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 plucked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck | would · perfect | heart | a flower | gladly property | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | |||
| 2 | not overcome | could | heart | heart's reluctance | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot reluctance=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break off | to-infinitive | heart not said here | one | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient |
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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