Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 125

Large poppies and peonies had pea-shells for instruments, and blew into them till they were quite red in the face.

Who acts: Large poppies, poppies · What happens: have, blow, be · To what, where: pea shells, face

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 (Large poppies, poppies), 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	Large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 poppies	amod
2	poppies	poppy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 peonies	cc
4	peonies	peony	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 poppies	conj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shells	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 pea	punct
8	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 instruments	case
10	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 blew	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 blew	cc
13	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
14	into	into	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 blew	obl
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	20 red	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 red	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 red	cop
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 red	advmod
20	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 blew	advcl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 face	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 face	det
23	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 red	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Large poppies and peonies	pea shells		for instruments	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient
2	blow	past	Large poppies and peonies not said here			into poppies = poppy	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent into they=Product
3	is	past	poppies = poppy		the face	red property	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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