Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 138
Then she took a little paper box, on which were painted beautiful birds, and laid the dead flowers in it.
Who acts: Ida · What happens: take, paint, lay · To what, where: little paper box, beautiful birds, dead flowers, box
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 (Ida), 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 | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 box | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 box | amod |
| 6 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 box | compound |
| 7 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 painted | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 painted | obl |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 painted | aux:pass |
| 12 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 took | advcl |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 birds | amod |
| 14 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 painted | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 laid | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 laid | cc |
| 17 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 flowers | det |
| 19 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 flowers | amod |
| 20 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 laid | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 laid | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Ida | a little paper box | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | |||
| 2 | paint | past · passive | Ida not said here | beautiful birds | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: bird=Theme on which=Destination | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | Ida not said here | the dead flowers | box | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme in it=Destination |
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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