Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 121
And the old man opened his prayer-book; the elder-blossom was still in it, and as fresh as if it had only just been put in.
Who acts: old man, elder blossom · What happens: open, be, put in · To what, where: prayer book, book
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 (old man, elder blossom), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 opened | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | nsubj |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 book | nmod:poss |
| 7 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 book | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 prayer | punct |
| 9 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 it | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 blossom | det |
| 12 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 blossom | amod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 elder | punct |
| 14 | blossom | blossom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 it | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 it | cop |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 it | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 opened | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fresh | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fresh | cc |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 fresh | advmod |
| 22 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 opened | parataxis |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 put | mark |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 put | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 put | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 put | aux |
| 27 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 put | advmod |
| 28 | just | just | ADV | _ | 30 put | advmod |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 put | aux:pass |
| 30 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 fresh | advcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 put | compound:prt |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the old man | man's prayer book | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the elder blossom | book | still | tree rules | |||
| 3 | put in | past · perfect · passive | book | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
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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