Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 122
First came two lovely roses, with little golden crowns on their heads; these were the king and queen.
Who acts: these · What happens: come, be · To what, where: two lovely roses, king
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 (these), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 roses | nummod |
| 4 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 roses | amod |
| 5 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 crowns | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 crowns | case |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 crowns | amod |
| 9 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 crowns | amod |
| 10 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 heads | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heads | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 crowns | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 king | punct |
| 15 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 king | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 king | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 queen | cc |
| 20 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 king | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | two lovely roses | with little golden crowns on doors's heads; first property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rose=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | these | the king and queen | tree rules |
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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