Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 85
"It is beautiful here in spring," said the little girl, and they were again in the green beechwood, where the thyme breathed forth sweet fragrance at their feet, and the pink anemones looked lovely in the green moss. "
Who acts: head, little girl, flowers, thyme, pink anemones · What happens: be, say, breathe, look · To what, where: green beechwood, sweet fragrance, feet · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (head, little girl, flowers, thyme), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beautiful | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | cop |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 beautiful | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 spring | case |
| 7 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beautiful | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 girl | amod |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 beechwood | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 beechwood | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 beechwood | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 beechwood | cop |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 beechwood | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 beechwood | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 beechwood | det |
| 21 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 beechwood | amod |
| 22 | beechwood | beechwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 breathed | punct |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 breathed | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 thyme | det |
| 26 | thyme | thyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 breathed | nsubj |
| 27 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 beechwood | parataxis |
| 28 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 29 sweet | advmod |
| 29 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fragrance | amod |
| 30 | fragrance | fragrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 breathed | obj |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 feet | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 feet | nmod:poss |
| 33 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 breathed | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 looked | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 looked | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 anemones | det |
| 37 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 anemones | amod |
| 38 | anemones | anemone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 looked | nsubj |
| 39 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 40 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 looked | xcomp |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 moss | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 moss | det |
| 43 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 moss | amod |
| 44 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 looked | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | head | here | spring | beautiful property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the little girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | flowers = flower | the green beechwood | again | tree rules | |||
| 4 | breathe | past | the thyme | sweet fragrance | flowers's feet | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragrance=Theme | |||
| 5 | look | past | the pink anemones | in the green moss; lovely property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in moss=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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