Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 123
Beautiful stocks and carnations followed, bowing to every one present.
Who acts: Beautiful stocks · What happens: follow, bow
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 (Beautiful stocks), 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 | Beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stocks | amod |
| 2 | stocks | stock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 carnations | cc |
| 4 | carnations | carnation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stocks | conj |
| 5 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bowing | punct |
| 7 | bowing | bow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 followed | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 present | case |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 present | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 present | compound |
| 11 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bowing | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Beautiful stocks and carnations | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bow | gerund | Beautiful stocks and carnations not said here | to every one present | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to present=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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