Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 12
Blooming water-lilies spread themselves forth like a carpet of wrought flowers, and upon them lay a slumbering woman, young and beautiful.
Who acts: Blooming water lilies · What happens: bloom, spread, lay, slumber · To what, where: lilies, slumbering woman
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blooming water lilies), 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 | Blooming | bloom | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 lilies | amod |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lilies | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 water | punct |
| 4 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spread | nsubj |
| 5 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 spread | obj |
| 7 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 spread | advmod |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 carpet | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 carpet | det |
| 10 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spread | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 flowers | case |
| 12 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flowers | amod |
| 13 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 carpet | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lay | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lay | cc |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lay | obl |
| 18 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spread | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 20 | slumbering | slumber | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 woman | amod |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lay | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 young | punct |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 woman | amod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 beautiful | cc |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 young | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloom | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | spread | present | Blooming water lilies | lilies = lily | like a carpet of wrought flowers; forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme | |||
| 3 | lay | present | Blooming water lilies not said here | a slumbering woman | upon lilies = lily | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme upon they=Destination | |||
| 4 | slumber | gerund | vn snooze-40.4 «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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