The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 10
All the blossoms then are found Downward fluttering to the ground, Hoping she may tread on them.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: find, flutter, hope, tread · To what, where: blossoms · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 blossoms | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 blossoms | det |
| 3 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 found | advmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | aux:pass |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 blossoms | acl |
| 7 | Downward | downward | ADV | _ | 6 found | advmod |
| 8 | fluttering | flutter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 found | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 ground | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fluttering | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hoping | punct |
| 13 | Hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 fluttering | conj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tread | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 tread | aux |
| 16 | tread | tread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 Hoping | ccomp |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tread | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blossoms | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · passive | all blossoms not said here | then | downward property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» | |||
| 2 | flutter | gerund | to the ground | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hope | gerund | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | tread | may | Princess | on blossoms = blossom | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Trajectory |
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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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