Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 38
The despised flower was by this raised to the position of a prophet or foreteller of events.
Who acts: despised flower · What happens: despise, raise, be
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 (despised flower), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flower | det |
| 2 | despised | despise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 flower | amod |
| 3 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 position | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 position | cop |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 position | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 position | nsubj |
| 7 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 position | amod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 position | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 position | det |
| 10 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 prophet | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 prophet | det |
| 13 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 position | nmod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 foreteller | cc |
| 15 | foreteller | foreteller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prophet | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 events | case |
| 17 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 foreteller | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 position | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | despise | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | raise | participle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the despised flower | by the raised position; of a prophet or foreteller of events | tree rules |
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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