Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 6
Then she went home and planted it, and immediately there grew up a large handsome flower, something like a tulip in appearance, but with its leaves tightly closed as if it were still a bud. "
Who acts: fairy, barleycorn · What happens: go, plant, grow up, close, be · To what, where: barleycorn, large handsome flower, leaves
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 (fairy, barleycorn), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 planted | cc |
| 6 | planted | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 planted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 grew | cc |
| 10 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 11 there | advmod |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 grew | advmod |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 grew | compound:prt |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 flower | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 flower | amod |
| 16 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 flower | amod |
| 17 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 something | punct |
| 19 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 flower | appos |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 tulip | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tulip | det |
| 22 | tulip | tulip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 something | nmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 appearance | case |
| 24 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tulip | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 closed | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 closed | cc |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 leaves | case |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 29 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 31 closed | advmod |
| 31 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 grew | conj |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 38 bud | case |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 as | fixed |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 bud | nsubj |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 bud | cop |
| 36 | still | still | ADV | _ | 38 bud | advmod |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 bud | det |
| 38 | bud | bud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 closed | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | fairy | then | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | plant | past | fairy not said here | barleycorn | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grow up | past | fairy not said here | a large handsome flower | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme | |||
| 4 | close | participle · passive | barleycorn's leaves | tightly property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | barleycorn | still | as a bud | tree rules |
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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