Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 74
The servants, as well as the young ladies, decorated it.
Who acts: servants · What happens: decorate · To what, where: pang
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 (servants), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 servants | det |
| 2 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 decorated | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ladies | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 9 ladies | cc |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 as | fixed |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 as | fixed |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ladies | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ladies | amod |
| 9 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 servants | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 servants | punct |
| 11 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 decorated | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 decorated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decorate | past | the servants as the young ladies | pang | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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