Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 85
She carried on her arm a flower-pot, in which a little fir-tree was growing. "
Who acts: cold, little fir tree · What happens: carry, grow · To what, where: flower pot, arm
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 (cold, little fir tree), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 arm | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 arm | nmod:poss |
| 5 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pot | det |
| 7 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pot | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 flower | punct |
| 9 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 growing | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 growing | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tree | amod |
| 15 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tree | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 fir | punct |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 growing | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 growing | aux |
| 19 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 carried | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | cold | a flower pot | cold's arm | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme | |||
| 2 | grow | past · progressive | a little fir tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
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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