Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 106
He placed it in his prayer-book, and when he opened it in distant lands it was always at the place where the flower of remembrance was lying; and the more he looked at it the fresher it became, so that he could almost smell the fragrance of the woods at home.
Who acts: boy, breast, flower · What happens: place, open, be, lie, look, become · To what, where: breast, prayer book, distant lands, place, fresher, fragrance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, breast, flower), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 placed | nsubj |
| 2 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 placed | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 book | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 book | nmod:poss |
| 6 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 book | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 prayer | punct |
| 8 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 opened | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 opened | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 opened | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 opened | nsubj |
| 13 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 placed | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 opened | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 lands | case |
| 16 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lands | amod |
| 17 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 opened | obl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 place | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 place | cop |
| 20 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 23 place | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 place | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 place | det |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lands | conj |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 lying | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 flower | det |
| 26 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lying | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 remembrance | case |
| 28 | remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flower | nmod |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 lying | aux |
| 30 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 place | advcl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 looked | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 looked | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 more | det |
| 34 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 looked | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 looked | nsubj |
| 36 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 placed | parataxis |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 looked | obl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 fresher | det |
| 40 | fresher | fresher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 became | nsubj |
| 42 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 fresher | acl:relcl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 smell | punct |
| 44 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 49 smell | mark |
| 45 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 so | fixed |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 smell | nsubj |
| 47 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 smell | aux |
| 48 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 49 smell | advmod |
| 49 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 looked | conj |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 fragrance | det |
| 51 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 smell | obj |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 woods | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 woods | det |
| 54 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 fragrance | nmod |
| 55 | at | at | ADP | _ | 56 home | case |
| 56 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 smell | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | boy | breast | boy's prayer book | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in book=Destination | |||
| 2 | open | past | boy | breast | distant lands and the place | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme in land=Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | breast | the place | always property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | lie | past · progressive | the flower of remembrance | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | look | past | boy | the fresher | at breast | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | |||
| 6 | become | past | breast | the fresher not said here | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient fresher=Result | ||||
| 7 | smell | could | boy | the fragrance of the woods | home | almost property | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fragrance=Theme at home=Location |
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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