Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 107
The boy saw it all, and yet they were only going round the grass-plot.
Who acts: boy, sparks · What happens: see, go · To what, where: reality, grass plot
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, sparks), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 it | det |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 going | cc |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 going | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 going | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 going | aux |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 going | advmod |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | conj |
| 13 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 plot | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 plot | det |
| 15 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 plot | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 grass | punct |
| 17 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 going | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the boy | reality | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | sparks = spark | the grass plot | yet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round plot=Initial_Location |
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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