Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 53
He went one morning into his garden, and saw a stinging nettle making signs with its leaves to a beautiful red carnation.
Who acts: professor, stinging nettle · What happens: go, see, make · To what, where: garden, stinging nettle, signs
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, stinging nettle), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 morning | nummod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 garden | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 garden | nmod:poss |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 nettle | det |
| 12 | stinging | stinging | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 nettle | amod |
| 13 | nettle | nettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 saw | xcomp |
| 15 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 making | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 leaves | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 18 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 making | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 carnation | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 carnation | det |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 carnation | amod |
| 22 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 carnation | amod |
| 23 | carnation | carnation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 making | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | professor | professor's garden | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | professor not said here | a stinging nettle | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | a stinging nettle not said here | signs | with nettle's leaves; to a beautiful red carnation | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product |
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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