Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 58
The large clover leaf under the shelter of which she had lived, was now rolled together and shrivelled up, nothing remained but a yellow withered stalk.
Who acts: tree, nothing · What happens: live, roll, shrivell up, remain, wither · To what, where: large clover leaf
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 (tree, nothing), 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 leaf | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 leaf | amod |
| 3 | clover | clover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaf | compound |
| 4 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rolled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 shelter | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shelter | det |
| 7 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaf | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lived | obl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lived | aux |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 shelter | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 leaf | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rolled | aux:pass |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 rolled | advmod |
| 16 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 16 rolled | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 shrivelled | cc |
| 19 | shrivelled | shrivell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 rolled | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 shrivelled | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 remained | punct |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 remained | nsubj |
| 23 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rolled | parataxis |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 stalk | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 stalk | det |
| 26 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 stalk | amod |
| 27 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 stalk | amod |
| 28 | stalk | stalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 remained | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past · perfect | tree | of the shelter | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | roll | past · passive | the large clover leaf under the shelter | now | together property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | |||
| 3 | shrivell up | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | remain | past | nothing | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | wither | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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