Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 127
Then came many more flowers: blue violets, purple heart's-ease, daisies, and lilies of the valley, and they all danced together, and kissed each other.
What happens: come, dance, kiss · To what, where: many more flowers, flowers, each
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: 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 | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flowers | amod |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 flowers | amod |
| 5 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 violets | punct |
| 7 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 violets | amod |
| 8 | violets | violet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flowers | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ease | punct |
| 10 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ease | amod |
| 11 | heart's | heart's | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ease | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 heart's | punct |
| 13 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 violets | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 daisies | punct |
| 15 | daisies | daisy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 violets | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lilies | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lilies | cc |
| 18 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 violets | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 valley | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 valley | det |
| 21 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lilies | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 danced | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 danced | cc |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 danced | nsubj |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 danced | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 came | conj |
| 27 | together | together | ADV | _ | 26 danced | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 kissed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 kissed | cc |
| 30 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 31 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 30 kissed | obj |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 each | fixed |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | many more flowers and blue violets and purple heart's ease and daisies and lilies of the valley | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dance | participle · passive | flowers = flower | together property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kiss | past | each | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent |
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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