Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 45
And when the professor walks into his garden, there will not be a single flower left.
Who acts: professor, single flower · What happens: walk, not be, leave · To what, where: garden, single flower
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 (professor, single flower), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 be | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 walks | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 professor | det |
| 4 | professor | professor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walks | nsubj |
| 5 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 be | advcl |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 garden | nmod:poss |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walks | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 walks | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 be | expl |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 be | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 be | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 flower | det |
| 15 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 flower | amod |
| 16 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 be | nsubj |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 flower | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | the professor | into professor's garden result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into garden=Result | ||||
| 2 | not be | future | a single flower | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | a single flower not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/73/45/