Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 25
The banks on both sides were beautiful; lovely flowers, venerable trees, and slopes with sheep and cows, but not a human being was to be seen.
Who acts: banks · What happens: be, see
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, 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 (banks), 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 banks | det |
| 2 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 beautiful | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 sides | case |
| 4 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 sides | det |
| 5 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 banks | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 beautiful | cop |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 flowers | punct |
| 9 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flowers | amod |
| 10 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 beautiful | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 trees | punct |
| 12 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 trees | amod |
| 13 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 flowers | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 slopes | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 slopes | cc |
| 16 | slopes | slope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 flowers | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 sheep | case |
| 18 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 slopes | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cows | cc |
| 20 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sheep | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 seen | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 seen | cc |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 human | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 human | det |
| 25 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 seen | advcl |
| 26 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 seen | aux:pass |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 seen | aux:pass |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 seen | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 seen | aux:pass |
| 30 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 beautiful | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the banks on both sides | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund · passive | the banks on both sides not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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