Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 22
Far out in the stream grew a number of water-lilies, with broad green leaves, which seemed to float on the top of the water.
Who acts: stream, broad green leaves · What happens: grow, seem, float · To what, where: number, top
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 (stream, broad green leaves), 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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 out | advmod |
| 2 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 grew | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 stream | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stream | det |
| 5 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | nsubj |
| 6 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 number | det |
| 8 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grew | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 lilies | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lilies | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 water | punct |
| 12 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 number | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 leaves | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 leaves | case |
| 15 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 leaves | amod |
| 16 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 leaves | amod |
| 17 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grew | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seemed | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 seemed | nsubj |
| 20 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 leaves | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 float | mark |
| 22 | float | float | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 seemed | xcomp |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 top | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 top | det |
| 25 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 float | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 water | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 water | det |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 top | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the stream | a number of water lilies | with broad green leaves; out property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent number=Patient with leaf=Instrument | |||
| 2 | seem | past | broad green leaves | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | float | to-infinitive | broad green leaves not said here | the top of the water | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Trajectory |
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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