Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 12

Round this plate were wreaths of flowers with their stems in the water, and upon it floated a large tulip-leaf, which served Tiny for a boat.

Who acts: wreaths, large tulip leaf · What happens: be, float, serve, stem · To what, where: wreaths, large tulip leaf, Tiny, water

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wreaths, large tulip leaf), 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	Round	round	ADP	_	3 plate	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 plate	det
3	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wreaths	obl
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wreaths	cop
5	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 floated	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 flowers	case
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wreaths	nmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 stems	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 stems	nmod:poss
10	stems	stem	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flowers	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stems	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 floated	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 floated	cc
16	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	18 floated	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 floated	nsubj
18	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 leaf	det
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 leaf	amod
21	tulip	tulip	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 leaf	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 tulip	punct
23	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 floated	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 served	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 served	nsubj
26	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 leaf	acl:relcl
27	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 served	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 boat	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 boat	det
30	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 served	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 floated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		wreaths		round this plate; of flowers with wreaths's stems in the water	tree rules
2	float	past	wreaths	a large tulip leaf			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Agent
3	serve	past	a large tulip leaf	Tiny		for a boat	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tiny=Theme for boat=Recipient
4	stem		wreaths = wreath		the water		nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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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