Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 23

But it was white, like the leaves of a blush-rose.

Who acts: love · What happens: be

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 (love), 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 white	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 white	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 white	cop
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 leaves	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 leaves	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 leaves	det
8	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 white	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 rose	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 rose	det
11	blush	blush	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rose	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 blush	punct
13	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leaves	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 white	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	love					like the leaves of a blush rose; white property	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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