Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 2
She specially loved roses, and therefore she possessed the most beautiful varieties of this flower, from the wild hedge-rose, with its apple-scented leaves, to the splendid Provence rose.
Who acts: She · What happens: love, possess, scent · To what, where: roses, beautiful varieties, wild hedge rose
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (She), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | specially | specially | ADV | _ | 3 loved | advmod |
| 3 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 loved | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 possessed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 possessed | cc |
| 7 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 9 possessed | advmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 possessed | nsubj |
| 9 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 loved | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 varieties | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 beautiful | advmod |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 varieties | amod |
| 13 | varieties | variety | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 possessed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 flower | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 flower | det |
| 16 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 varieties | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 rose | punct |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 rose | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rose | det |
| 20 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rose | amod |
| 21 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rose | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 hedge | punct |
| 23 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 possessed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 leaves | punct |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 leaves | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 27 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 scented | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 apple | punct |
| 29 | scented | scent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 leaves | amod |
| 30 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 rose | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 rose | punct |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 rose | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 rose | det |
| 34 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 rose | amod |
| 35 | Provence | provence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rose | compound |
| 36 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 possessed | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | She | roses | specially property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rose=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | possess | past | she | the beautiful varieties of this flower | the wild hedge rose and garden's scented leaves | to the splendid Provence rose; therefore property | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot variety=Theme | ||
| 3 | scent | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
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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