Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4, sentence 45
We carry the perfume of the flowers to spread health and restoration.
Who acts: We · What happens: carry, spread, perfume · To what, where: perfume, health, flowers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 perfume | det |
| 4 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carry | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 flowers | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flowers | det |
| 7 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 perfume | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 spread | mark |
| 9 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 carry | advcl |
| 10 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spread | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 restoration | cc |
| 12 | restoration | restoration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 health | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | present | We | the perfume of the flowers | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spread | to-infinitive | We not said here | health and restoration | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location health=Theme | ||||
| 3 | perfume | the flowers | nom perfume «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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