Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 71
And the Fir Tree was stuck upright in a cask that was filled with sand; but no one could see that it was a cask, for green cloth was hung all round it, and it stood on a large gaily-colored carpet.
Who acts: Fir Tree, one, sand, cloth · What happens: be, fill, see, hang, stand, color · To what, where: cask, green cloth, large colored carpet · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Fir Tree, one, sand, cloth), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stuck | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Tree | det |
| 3 | Fir | Fir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Tree | compound |
| 4 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stuck | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stuck | cop |
| 6 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | upright | upright | ADV | _ | 6 stuck | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 cask | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cask | det |
| 10 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stuck | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 filled | aux:pass |
| 13 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 cask | acl:relcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 sand | case |
| 15 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 filled | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 see | cc |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 see | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | aux |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 stuck | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 cask | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 cask | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 cask | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 cask | det |
| 26 | cask | cask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 see | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 hung | punct |
| 28 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 hung | mark |
| 29 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cloth | amod |
| 30 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hung | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 hung | aux:pass |
| 32 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 see | parataxis |
| 33 | all | all | ADV | _ | 35 it | advmod |
| 34 | round | round | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 hung | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 stood | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 stood | cc |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 stood | nsubj |
| 39 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 hung | conj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 carpet | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 carpet | det |
| 42 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 carpet | amod |
| 43 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 colored | compound |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 gaily | punct |
| 45 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 carpet | amod |
| 46 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 stood | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Fir Tree | a cask | stuck, upright property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | a cask | with sand | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with sand=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | see | could | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | sand | a cask | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hang | past · passive | green cloth | round sand | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | stand | past | cloth | a large colored carpet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on carpet=Location | ||||
| 7 | color | participle | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: 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: «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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