Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 51
This was what the lady had so carefully plucked, and carried home so safely covered, so that not one of the delicate feathery arrows of which its mist-like shape was so lightly formed, should flutter away.
Who acts: This, lady · What happens: be, have, pluck, carry, cover, form · To what, where: like shape
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 (This, lady), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 what | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 40 flutter | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 plucked | advmod |
| 8 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 9 plucked | advmod |
| 9 | plucked | pluck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 had | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 carried | cc |
| 12 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 carried | advmod |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 covered | advmod |
| 15 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 16 covered | advmod |
| 16 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 carried | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 one | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 one | mark |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 one | advmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 what | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 arrows | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 arrows | det |
| 24 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 arrows | amod |
| 25 | feathery | feathery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 arrows | amod |
| 26 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 formed | obl |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 shape | nmod:poss |
| 30 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 like | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 mist | punct |
| 32 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 shape | amod |
| 33 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 formed | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 formed | aux:pass |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 formed | advmod |
| 36 | lightly | lightly | ADV | _ | 37 formed | advmod |
| 37 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 arrows | acl:relcl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 39 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 flutter | aux |
| 40 | flutter | flutter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 41 | away | away | ADV | _ | 40 flutter | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 flutter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the lady | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pluck | participle | the lady not said here | carefully property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | carry | past | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | cover | participle | safely property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | form | past · passive | leaf's like shape | of the delicate feathery arrows; lightly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 7 | flutter away | should | away property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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