Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 7
It is a beautiful flower," said the woman, and she kissed the red and golden-colored leaves, and while she did so the flower opened, and she could see that it was a real tulip.
Who acts: barleycorn, woman, flower · What happens: be, say, kiss, color, do, open · To what, where: beautiful flower, red colored leaves, real tulip · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (barleycorn, woman, flower), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 flower | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 flower | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 flower | det |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flower | amod |
| 5 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 flower | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 flower | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 kissed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 kissed | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kissed | nsubj |
| 14 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 leaves | det |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 leaves | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 leaves | cc |
| 18 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 colored | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 golden | punct |
| 20 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 leaves | amod |
| 21 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 kissed | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 did | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 did | cc |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 did | mark |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 did | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 kissed | conj |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 opened | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 flower | det |
| 29 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 opened | nsubj |
| 30 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 did | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 see | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 see | cc |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 see | nsubj |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 see | aux |
| 35 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 tulip | mark |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 tulip | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 tulip | cop |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 tulip | det |
| 40 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 tulip | amod |
| 41 | tulip | tulip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 see | ccomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | barleycorn | a beautiful flower | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kiss in a quote | past | woman | the red colored leaves | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | color in a quote | participle | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | do in a quote | past | woman | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | open in a quote | past | the flower | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | see in a quote | could | flower | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | is a in a quote | past | barleycorn | a real tulip | 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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