Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 21
The two most beautiful roses seat themselves on the throne, and are called the king and queen, then all the red cockscombs range themselves on each side, and bow, these are the lords-in-waiting.
Who acts: red cockscombs, these · What happens: call, range, be · To what, where: roses seat, king, flowers, side, lords · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (red cockscombs, these), 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 | 6 seat | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 roses | nummod |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 beautiful | advmod |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 roses | amod |
| 5 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 seat | compound |
| 6 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 6 seat | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 throne | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 throne | det |
| 10 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seat | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 called | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 called | cc |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 called | aux:pass |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 seat | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 called | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 queen | cc |
| 18 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 king | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 range | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 range | advmod |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 cockscombs | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cockscombs | det |
| 23 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cockscombs | amod |
| 24 | cockscombs | cockscomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 range | nsubj |
| 25 | range | range | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 called | conj |
| 26 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 range | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 side | case |
| 28 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 side | det |
| 29 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 range | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 bow | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 bow | cc |
| 32 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 range | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 lords | punct |
| 34 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 37 lords | nsubj |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 lords | cop |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 lords | det |
| 37 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 bow | nmod |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 waiting | punct |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 waiting | case |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 in | punct |
| 41 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 lords | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | the roses seat flowers on the throne not said here | the king and queen | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: king=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | range | present | all red cockscombs | flowers = flower | each side | then | bow obl | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme | |
| 3 | is a | present | these | the lords and waiting | 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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