Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 56
Then the sunbeam kissed the lowly flower, and he kissed the blooming apple-branch, upon whose leaves appeared a rosy blush.
Who acts: sunbeam, flower, leaves · What happens: kiss, bloom, appear · To what, where: lowly flower, blooming apple branch, rosy blush
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 (sunbeam, flower, leaves), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 kissed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sunbeam | det |
| 3 | sunbeam | sunbeam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kissed | nsubj |
| 4 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flower | det |
| 6 | lowly | lowly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flower | amod |
| 7 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kissed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kissed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kissed | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 kissed | nsubj |
| 11 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kissed | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 branch | det |
| 13 | blooming | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 branch | amod |
| 14 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 branch | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 apple | punct |
| 16 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kissed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 appeared | punct |
| 18 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 21 appeared | mark |
| 19 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 20 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 20 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 appeared | nsubj |
| 21 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 kissed | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 blush | det |
| 23 | rosy | rosy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 blush | amod |
| 24 | blush | blush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 appeared | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | the sunbeam | the lowly flower | then | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | kiss | past | flower | the blooming apple branch | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | bloom | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | appear | past | leaves | a rosy blush | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blush=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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