Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 19
And the apple-branch looked with a sort of pity upon them, especially on a certain little flower that is found in fields and in ditches.
Who acts: apple branch · What happens: look, find, sort · To what, where: certain little flower, fields, pity
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apple branch), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 looked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 branch | det |
| 3 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 branch | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 apple | punct |
| 5 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | nsubj |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 sort | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sort | det |
| 9 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 pity | case |
| 11 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sort | nmod |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 looked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flower | punct |
| 15 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 20 flower | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 flower | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 flower | det |
| 18 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 flower | amod |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 flower | amod |
| 20 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 looked | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 found | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 found | aux:pass |
| 23 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 flower | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 fields | case |
| 25 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 found | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 ditches | cc |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 ditches | case |
| 28 | ditches | ditch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fields | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the apple branch | a certain little flower | with a sort of pity; upon equals = equal | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon they=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | present · passive | a certain little flower | fields and ditches | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sort | pity | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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