Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 50
Very cautiously the large leaves were removed, and there appeared the feathery seed-crown of the despised dandelion.
What happens: remove, appear, despise, crown · To what, where: large leaves, feathery seed crown, despised dandelion
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: 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 cautiously | advmod |
| 2 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 7 removed | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 leaves | det |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 leaves | amod |
| 5 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 removed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 removed | aux:pass |
| 7 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 appeared | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 appeared | cc |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 appeared | advmod |
| 11 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 removed | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 crown | det |
| 13 | feathery | feathery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 crown | amod |
| 14 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 crown | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 seed | punct |
| 16 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appeared | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 dandelion | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dandelion | det |
| 19 | despised | despise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 dandelion | amod |
| 20 | dandelion | dandelion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 crown | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 removed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remove | past · passive | the large leaves | cautiously property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | the feathery seed crown of the despised dandelion | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crown=Theme | ||||
| 3 | despise | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | crown | the despised dandelion | nom crown «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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