Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak, sentence 73
On a blade of grass, that fluttered in the air like a long, green ribbon, sat a grasshopper, cleaning his wings with his legs.
Who acts: grass · What happens: flutter, sit, clean · To what, where: air, grasshopper, blade, wings
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Dream of the Old Oak. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grass), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 blade | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 blade | det |
| 3 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sat | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 grass | case |
| 5 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blade | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fluttered | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 fluttered | nsubj |
| 8 | fluttered | flutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grass | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fluttered | obl |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 ribbon | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ribbon | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ribbon | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 long | punct |
| 16 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ribbon | amod |
| 17 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fluttered | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 blade | punct |
| 19 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 grasshopper | det |
| 21 | grasshopper | grasshopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sat | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cleaning | punct |
| 23 | cleaning | clean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 sat | advcl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wings | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 cleaning | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 legs | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 legs | nmod:poss |
| 28 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 cleaning | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flutter | past | grass | the air | like a long green ribbon | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location | |||
| 2 | sit | past | a grasshopper | a blade of grass | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent grasshopper=Theme on blade=Location | ||||
| 3 | clean | gerund | grasshopper's wings | with grasshopper's legs | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent wing=Patient with leg=Instrument |
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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