Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 24
The tulips and tiger-lilies are the old ladies who sit and watch the dancing, so that everything may be conducted with order and propriety."
Who acts: tulips, old ladies · What happens: be, sit, watch, conduct · To what, where: old ladies, dancing, everything
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 (tulips, old ladies), 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 tulips | det |
| 2 | tulips | tulip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ladies | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lilies | cc |
| 4 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lilies | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 tiger | punct |
| 6 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tulips | conj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ladies | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ladies | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ladies | amod |
| 10 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 sit | nsubj |
| 12 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ladies | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 watch | cc |
| 14 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 sit | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dancing | det |
| 16 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 watch | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 conducted | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 conducted | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 23 conducted | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 conducted | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 conducted | aux:pass |
| 23 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sit | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 order | case |
| 25 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 conducted | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 propriety | cc |
| 27 | propriety | propriety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 order | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ladies | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 ladies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the tulips and tiger lilies | the old ladies | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | present | the old ladies | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | watch | infinitive | the old ladies not said here | the dancing | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dancing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | conduct | may · passive | everything | with order and propriety | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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