Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 56

Then the leaves, which are its fingers, stung him so sharply that he has never ventured to touch a nettle since."

Who acts: leaves, professor · What happens: be, sting, not venture, touch · To what, where: fingers, professor, nettle

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 (leaves, professor), 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	10 stung	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 leaves	det
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stung	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fingers	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 fingers	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fingers	cop
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fingers	nmod:poss
8	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leaves	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fingers	punct
10	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stung	obj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 sharply	advmod
13	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	10 stung	advmod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 ventured	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ventured	nsubj
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 ventured	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 ventured	advmod
18	ventured	venture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 stung	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 touch	mark
20	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 ventured	xcomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 nettle	det
22	nettle	nettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 touch	obj
23	since	since	ADV	_	20 touch	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 stung	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 stung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the leaves	nonsense's fingers			tree rules
2	sting	past	the leaves	professor	then	sharply property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
3	not venture	present · perfect	professor				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	touch	to-infinitive	professor not said here	a nettle		since property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nettle=Co-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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