Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 86
All the hyacinths and tulips stood in two long rows down the room, not a single flower remained in the window, and the flower-pots were all empty.
Who acts: hyacinths, flower pots · What happens: stand, remain, be · To what, where: two long rows, single flower, window
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 (hyacinths, flower pots), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 hyacinths | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hyacinths | det |
| 3 | hyacinths | hyacinth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 tulips | cc |
| 5 | tulips | tulip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hyacinths | conj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 rows | case |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 rows | nummod |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rows | amod |
| 10 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stood | obl |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 room | det |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flower | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 flower | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 flower | det |
| 17 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 flower | amod |
| 18 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 room | conj |
| 19 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 flower | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 window | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 window | det |
| 22 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 remained | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 empty | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 empty | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 pots | det |
| 26 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pots | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 flower | punct |
| 28 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 empty | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 empty | cop |
| 30 | all | all | ADV | _ | 31 empty | advmod |
| 31 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stood | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | all hyacinths and tulips | two long rows | down the room and a single flower | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location | |||
| 2 | remain | participle | a single flower not said here | the window | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in window=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the flower pots | all, empty property | 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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