Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 27
Fresh roses were scattered over her.
What happens: scatter · To what, where: Fresh roses
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. 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 | Fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 roses | amod |
| 2 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 scattered | aux:pass |
| 4 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 scattered | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | past · passive | Fresh roses | over woman | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over she=Destination |
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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