Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 25
She knew it would so soon fade; so she took only a single green leaf, carried it home, and laid it in her Bible, where it remained ever green, fresh, and unfading.
Who acts: heart, flower · What happens: know, fade, take, carry, lay, remain · To what, where: single green leaf, flower, Bible
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, flower), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fade | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fade | aux |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 fade | advmod |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 fade | advmod |
| 7 | fade | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 took | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | parataxis |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 leaf | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 leaf | det |
| 14 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 leaf | amod |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 leaf | amod |
| 16 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 carried | punct |
| 18 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 carried | obj |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 carried | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 laid | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 laid | cc |
| 23 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 carried | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 laid | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 Bible | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 Bible | nmod:poss |
| 27 | Bible | Bible | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 laid | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 remained | punct |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 remained | advmod |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 remained | nsubj |
| 31 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 Bible | acl:relcl |
| 32 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 31 remained | advmod |
| 33 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 remained | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 fresh | punct |
| 35 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 green | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 unfading | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 unfading | cc |
| 38 | unfading | unfading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 laid | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | fade | would | flower | soon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | past | heart | a single green leaf | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry | past | heart not said here | flower | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | lay | past | heart not said here | flower | heart's Bible | unfading obl | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bible=Destination | ||
| 6 | remain | past | flower | ever | green property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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