Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 38
But I am fragrant with perfume, for close to my gates most lovely roses bloom."
Who acts: I · What happens: be, bloom
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 fragrant | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fragrant | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fragrant | cop |
| 4 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 perfume | case |
| 6 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fragrant | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 close | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 close | case |
| 9 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fragrant | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 gates | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 gates | nmod:poss |
| 12 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 close | obl |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 lovely | advmod |
| 14 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 roses | amod |
| 15 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gates | conj |
| 16 | bloom | bloom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 close | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fragrant | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fragrant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | with perfume; fragrant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bloom | present | I not said here | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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