Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 4
Under the little apple-tree, Spring seemed busy, and told his tale from one of the branches which hung fresh and blooming, and covered with delicate pink blossoms that were just ready to open.
Who acts: Spring, branches, delicate pink blossoms, flower · What happens: seem, tell, hang, bloom, cover, be · To what, where: little apple tree, tale · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Spring, branches, delicate pink blossoms, 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tree | amod |
| 4 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tree | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 apple | punct |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seemed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tree | punct |
| 8 | Spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 seemed | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seemed | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tale | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 told | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 branches | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 branches | det |
| 20 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 hung | nsubj |
| 22 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 branches | acl:relcl |
| 23 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hung | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 blooming | cc |
| 25 | blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 fresh | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 covered | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 covered | cc |
| 28 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 told | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 blossoms | case |
| 30 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 blossoms | amod |
| 31 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 blossoms | amod |
| 32 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 covered | obl |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 ready | nsubj |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 ready | cop |
| 35 | just | just | ADV | _ | 36 ready | advmod |
| 36 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 blossoms | acl:relcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 open | mark |
| 38 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 ready | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Spring | the little apple tree | busy property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | flower's tale | from one of the branches | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | hang | past | the branches | fresh property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | bloom | gerund | the branches not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cover | participle | with delicate pink blossoms | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with blossom=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | past | delicate pink blossoms | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | open | to-infinitive | delicate pink blossoms not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | tell | flower | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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