Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 90
Red and yellow flowers grew in the ditches, wild hops and convolvuli in full bloom in the hedges.
Who acts: Red flowers · What happens: grow · To what, where: ditches
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 (Red flowers), 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 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 flowers | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 yellow | cc |
| 3 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Red | conj |
| 4 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 ditches | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ditches | det |
| 8 | ditches | ditch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grew | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hops | punct |
| 10 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hops | amod |
| 11 | hops | hop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ditches | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 convolvuli | cc |
| 13 | convolvuli | convolvuli | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ditches | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 bloom | case |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bloom | amod |
| 16 | bloom | bloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 hedges | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hedges | det |
| 19 | hedges | hedge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grew | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Red flowers | the ditches and wild hops and convolvuli | in full bloom; in the hedges | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ditch=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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