Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 1
Out in the woods stood a nice little Fir Tree.
What happens: stand · To what, where: nice little Fir Tree, woods
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 woods | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woods | det |
| 4 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stood | obl |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Tree | det |
| 7 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Tree | amod |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Tree | amod |
| 9 | Fir | Fir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Tree | compound |
| 10 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a nice little Fir Tree | the woods | out property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme in wood=Destination |
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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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