Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 30
A young maiden knelt at the altar, and renewed the vows made at her baptism; and there were white roses and red roses on the blushing cheeks of that young girl.
Who acts: young maiden, vows, white roses · What happens: kneel, renew, make, be · To what, where: young maiden, altar, baptism
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 (young maiden, vows, white roses), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 maiden | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 maiden | amod |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 renewed | nsubj |
| 4 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 maiden | acl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 altar | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 altar | det |
| 7 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knelt | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 renewed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 renewed | cc |
| 10 | renewed | renew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 vows | det |
| 12 | vows | vow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 made | nsubj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 renewed | ccomp |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 baptism | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 baptism | nmod:poss |
| 16 | baptism | baptism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 were | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 were | cc |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 were | expl |
| 20 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 renewed | conj |
| 21 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 roses | amod |
| 22 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 were | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 roses | cc |
| 24 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 roses | amod |
| 25 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 roses | conj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 cheeks | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cheeks | det |
| 28 | blushing | blushing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cheeks | compound |
| 29 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 roses | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 girl | case |
| 31 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 girl | det |
| 32 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 girl | amod |
| 33 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cheeks | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 renewed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel | participle | a young maiden not said here | the altar | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at altar=Location | ||||
| 2 | renew | past | a young maiden | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | past | the vows | maiden's baptism | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | be | past | white roses and red roses on the blushing cheeks of that young girl | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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