Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 92
The old rough doll, with the broken mouth, stood up and bowed to the pretty flowers.
Who acts: old rough doll · What happens: break, stand up, bow
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 (old rough doll), 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 | 4 doll | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 doll | amod |
| 3 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 doll | amod |
| 4 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mouth | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 mouth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mouth | det |
| 8 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 mouth | amod |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 doll | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 doll | punct |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 stood | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bowed | cc |
| 14 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 stood | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 flowers | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 flowers | det |
| 17 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 flowers | amod |
| 18 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bowed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | stand up | past | the old rough doll and the broken mouth | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bow | participle | the old rough doll and the broken mouth not said here | to the pretty flowers | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to flower=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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