Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 34
But the eldest among them gathered carefully the faded flowers, on the stem of which was grouped together the seed, in the form of a white feathery coronal.
Who acts: eldest · What happens: gather, fade, group, form · To what, where: faded flowers, seed, white feathery coronal
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 (eldest), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 gathered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 eldest | det |
| 3 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 gathered | nsubj |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 eldest | nmod |
| 6 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 6 gathered | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 flowers | det |
| 9 | faded | fade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 flowers | amod |
| 10 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gathered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stem | punct |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 stem | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stem | det |
| 14 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gathered | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 grouped | obl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 grouped | aux:pass |
| 18 | grouped | group | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 stem | acl:relcl |
| 19 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 grouped | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 seed | det |
| 21 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grouped | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 form | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 form | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 form | det |
| 25 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grouped | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 coronal | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 coronal | det |
| 28 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 coronal | amod |
| 29 | feathery | feathery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 coronal | amod |
| 30 | coronal | coronal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 form | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | the eldest among children | the faded flowers | carefully property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Theme | |||
| 2 | fade | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | group | past · passive | the seed | of the stem; together property | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: seed=Theme | ||||
| 4 | form | a white feathery coronal | nom form «communication 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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