Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 120
Then the door of the room opened, and a number of beautiful flowers danced in.
Who acts: door, number · What happens: open, dance
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, number), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 opened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 door | nmod |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 danced | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 danced | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 number | det |
| 11 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 danced | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 flowers | case |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 flowers | amod |
| 14 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 number | nmod |
| 15 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 opened | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 danced | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the door of the room | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dance | past | a number of beautiful flowers | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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