Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 35
These loose, airy wool-flowers are very beautiful, and look like fine snowy feathers or down.
Who acts: These, loose airy wool flowers · What happens: flower, be, look
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 (These, loose airy wool 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 flowers | nsubj |
| 2 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flowers | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 loose | punct |
| 4 | airy | airy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flowers | amod |
| 5 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flowers | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 wool | punct |
| 7 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 beautiful | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 beautiful | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 beautiful | advmod |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 look | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 look | cc |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 beautiful | parataxis |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 feathers | case |
| 15 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 feathers | amod |
| 16 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 feathers | amod |
| 17 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 look | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 down | cc |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 feathers | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flower | These | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | loose airy wool flowers | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | like fine snowy feathers | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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