Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 3
Wild-flowers in profusion covered the hedges.
Who acts: Wild flowers · What happens: cover · To what, where: hedges
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 (Wild 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 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flowers | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wild | punct |
| 3 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 covered | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 profusion | case |
| 5 | profusion | profusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flowers | nmod |
| 6 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hedges | det |
| 8 | hedges | hedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 covered | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past | Wild flowers in profusion | the hedges | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hedge=Destination |
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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