Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 29

No one ever places it in a nosegay; it is often trodden under foot, there are so many of them; and when they run to seed, they have flowers like wool, which fly away in little pieces over the roads, and cling to the dresses of the people.

Who acts: many, dandelions, flowers · What happens: tread, be, run, have, fly away · To what, where: deal, foot, flowers, little pieces

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 (many, dandelions, flowers), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 places	advmod
4	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 places	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 nosegay	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 nosegay	det
8	nosegay	nosegay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 places	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 trodden	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 trodden	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 trodden	aux:pass
12	often	often	ADV	_	13 trodden	advmod
13	trodden	tread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 one	parataxis
14	under	under	ADP	_	15 foot	case
15	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trodden	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 are	punct
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 are	expl
18	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 trodden	conj
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 many	advmod
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 are	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 many	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 have	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 have	cc
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 run	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 run	nsubj
27	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 have	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 seed	mark
29	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 run	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 run	punct
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 have	nsubj
32	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 trodden	conj
33	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 have	obj
34	like	like	ADP	_	35 wool	case
35	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 flowers	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 fly	punct
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 fly	nsubj
38	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 flowers	conj
39	away	away	ADV	_	38 fly	advmod
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 pieces	case
41	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 pieces	amod
42	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 fly	obl
43	over	over	ADP	_	45 roads	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 roads	det
45	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 pieces	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 cling	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 cling	cc
48	cling	cling	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	obl
49	to	to	ADP	_	51 dresses	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 dresses	det
51	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 cling	nmod
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 people	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 people	det
54	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 dresses	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tread	present · passive		deal	foot	often property	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	be	present	many of places		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run	present	dandelions = dandelion				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	present	dandelions = dandelion	flowers		like wool; cling to the dresses of the people obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient
5	fly away	present	flowers		little pieces over the roads	away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in piece=Location

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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