Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 100
The little seed is stirred, it swells and shoots up, and pours its sap into your blood, directing your course either for good or evil.
Who acts: seed · What happens: stir, swell, shoot up, pour, direct · To what, where: little seed, sap, blood, course
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seed), 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 | 3 seed | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seed | amod |
| 3 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stirred | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stirred | aux:pass |
| 5 | stirred | stir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 swells | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 swells | nsubj |
| 8 | swells | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stirred | parataxis |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shoots | cc |
| 10 | shoots | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 swells | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 shoots | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pours | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pours | cc |
| 14 | pours | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stirred | conj |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sap | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sap | SAP | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pours | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 blood | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 blood | nmod:poss |
| 19 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pours | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 directing | punct |
| 21 | directing | direct | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 pours | advcl |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 course | nmod:poss |
| 23 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 directing | obj |
| 24 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 26 good | cc:preconj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 good | case |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 directing | parataxis |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 evil | cc |
| 28 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 good | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stirred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stir | present · passive | the little seed | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | swell | present | seed | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | shoot up | present | seed not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pour | present | seed's sap | your blood | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent sap=Theme into blood=Destination | ||||
| 5 | direct | gerund | your course | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent course=Eventuality |
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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