Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 39
The messenger described the flower so that is appearance could not be mistaken.
Who acts: messenger · What happens: describe, be, not mistake · To what, where: flower, appearance
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 (messenger), 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 messenger | det |
| 2 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 described | nsubj |
| 3 | described | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flower | det |
| 5 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 described | obj |
| 6 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 13 mistaken | mark |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 appearance | det |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 appearance | cop |
| 9 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mistaken | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 mistaken | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 mistaken | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 mistaken | aux:pass |
| 13 | mistaken | mistake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 described | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 described | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | past | the messenger | the flower | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | that appearance | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not mistake | could · passive | that appearance | 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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