Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 126

The bunches of blue hyacinths and the little white snowdrops jingled their bell-like flowers, as if they were real bells.

Who acts: bunches, flowers · What happens: jingle, be · To what, where: like flowers

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 (bunches, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bunches	det
2	bunches	bunch	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 jingled	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 hyacinths	case
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hyacinths	amod
5	hyacinths	hyacinth	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bunches	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 snowdrops	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 snowdrops	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 snowdrops	amod
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 snowdrops	amod
10	snowdrops	snowdrop	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hyacinths	conj
11	jingled	jingle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 flowers	nmod:poss
13	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 like	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 bell	punct
15	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 flowers	amod
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 jingled	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bells	punct
18	as	as	ADP	_	23 bells	case
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 bells	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bells	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bells	cop
22	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bells	amod
23	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 jingled	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 jingled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jingle	past	the bunches of blue hyacinths and the little white snowdrops	snowdrops's like flowers					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	flowers = flower					as real bells	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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