Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 108
Then they played in a side avenue, and marked out a little garden on the earth; and they took Elder-blossoms from their hair, planted them, and they grew just like those the old people planted when they were children, as related before.
Who acts: sparks, old people · What happens: play, mark out, take, plant, grow, be · To what, where: side avenue, little garden, earth, Elder, hair, sparks
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 (sparks, old people), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 played | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 played | nsubj |
| 3 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 avenue | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 avenue | det |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 avenue | compound |
| 7 | avenue | avenue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 played | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 marked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 marked | cc |
| 10 | marked | mark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 played | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 marked | compound:prt |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 garden | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 garden | amod |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 marked | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 earth | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 earth | det |
| 17 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 garden | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 took | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 played | conj |
| 22 | Elder | Elder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Elder | punct |
| 24 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 took | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 hair | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hair | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 planted | punct |
| 29 | planted | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 took | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 planted | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 grew | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 grew | cc |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 grew | nsubj |
| 34 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 took | conj |
| 35 | just | just | ADV | _ | 37 those | advmod |
| 36 | like | like | ADP | _ | 37 those | case |
| 37 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 34 grew | obl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 people | det |
| 39 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 people | amod |
| 40 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 planted | nsubj |
| 41 | planted | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 those | acl:relcl |
| 42 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 45 children | advmod |
| 43 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 children | nsubj |
| 44 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 children | cop |
| 45 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 planted | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 related | punct |
| 47 | as | as | ADP | _ | 48 related | case |
| 48 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 grew | conj |
| 49 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 48 related | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | sparks = spark | a side avenue | then | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | mark out | participle | sparks = spark not said here | a little garden | the earth | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent garden=Theme on earth=Destination | |||
| 3 | take | past | sparks = spark | Elder | sparks's hair | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument elder=Theme blossom=Destination | |||
| 4 | plant | past | sparks = spark not said here | sparks = spark | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 5 | grow | past | sparks = spark | like those | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | plant | past | the old people | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | sparks = spark | children | tree rules |
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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