Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Loveliest Rose in the World, sentence 9
The flower must be one from the garden of love; but which of the roses there showed forth the highest and purest love?
Who acts: flower, roses · What happens: be, show · To what, where: one, garden, highest love
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 (flower, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 flower | det |
| 2 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 one | cop |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 love | case |
| 10 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 garden | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 showed | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 roses | cc |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 roses | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 roses | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 roses | det |
| 16 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 showed | nsubj |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 roses | advmod |
| 18 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 one | conj |
| 19 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 24 love | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 love | det |
| 21 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 love | amod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 purest | cc |
| 23 | purest | pure | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 highest | conj |
| 24 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 showed | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | the flower | one | the garden of love | tree rules | |||
| 2 | show | past | the roses | the highest love | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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