Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 36
In his button-hole he carried a little bunch of violets, but they were very small.
Who acts: man, violets · What happens: carry, be · To what, where: little bunch, button hole
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, violets), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 hole | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hole | nmod:poss |
| 3 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hole | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 button | punct |
| 5 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carried | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 carried | nsubj |
| 7 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bunch | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bunch | amod |
| 10 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carried | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 violets | case |
| 12 | violets | violet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bunch | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 small | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 small | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 small | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 small | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 small | advmod |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 carried | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | man | a little bunch of violets | man's button hole | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bunch=Value in hole=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | violets = violet | small 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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