Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 55
Every one admires the beauty of the apple-bough; but this humble flower has been endowed by Heaven with another kind of loveliness; and although they differ in appearance, both are the children of the realms of beauty."
Who acts: one, Heaven, branches, both · What happens: admire, endow, differ, be · To what, where: beauty, humble flower, appearance, children
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 (one, Heaven, branches, both), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 admires | nsubj |
| 3 | admires | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beauty | det |
| 5 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 admires | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bough | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bough | det |
| 8 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bough | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 apple | punct |
| 10 | bough | bough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beauty | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 endowed | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 endowed | cc |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 flower | det |
| 14 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 flower | amod |
| 15 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 endowed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 endowed | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 endowed | aux:pass |
| 18 | endowed | endow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 admires | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 Heaven | case |
| 20 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 endowed | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 kind | case |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 kind | det |
| 23 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 endowed | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 loveliness | case |
| 25 | loveliness | loveliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kind | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 differ | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 differ | cc |
| 28 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 30 differ | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 differ | nsubj |
| 30 | differ | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 admires | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 appearance | case |
| 32 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 differ | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 children | punct |
| 34 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 children | nsubj |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 children | cop |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 children | det |
| 37 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 differ | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 realms | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 realms | det |
| 40 | realms | realm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 children | nmod |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 beauty | case |
| 42 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 realms | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 admires | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 admires | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admire | present | every one | the beauty of the apple bough | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | endow | present · perfect · passive | Heaven | this humble flower | with another kind of loveliness | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Destination with kind=Theme | |||
| 3 | differ | present | branches = branch | appearance | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | both | the children | of the realms of beauty | 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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