Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 30
Out of the spout even did they spread themselves on all sides, and grew larger and larger; it was a splendid Elderbush, a whole tree; and it reached into the very bed, and pushed the curtains aside.
Who acts: flowers, cover · What happens: spread, grow, be, reach, push · To what, where: flowers, spout, splendid Elderbush, bed, curtains
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 (flowers, cover), 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 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 4 spout | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 spout | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spout | det |
| 4 | spout | spout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | obl |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 spread | advmod |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 spread | aux |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 spread | nsubj |
| 8 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 spread | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 sides | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 sides | det |
| 12 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spread | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 grew | cc |
| 15 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 spread | conj |
| 16 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 grew | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 larger | cc |
| 18 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 larger | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 Elderbush | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 Elderbush | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 Elderbush | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 Elderbush | det |
| 23 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Elderbush | amod |
| 24 | Elderbush | Elderbush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 grew | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 tree | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 tree | det |
| 27 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tree | amod |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Elderbush | appos |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 reached | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 reached | cc |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 reached | nsubj |
| 32 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 spread | parataxis |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 bed | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 bed | det |
| 35 | very | very | ADV | _ | 36 bed | advmod |
| 36 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 reached | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 pushed | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 pushed | cc |
| 39 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 reached | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 curtains | det |
| 41 | curtains | curtain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 pushed | obj |
| 42 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 39 pushed | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past · do-support | flowers = flower | flowers = flower | the spout | on all sides | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme out spout=Destination | ||
| 2 | grow | past | flowers = flower not said here | large property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | cover | a splendid Elderbush | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | cover | the bed | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into bed=Path | ||||
| 5 | push | past | cover not said here | the curtains | aside property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Theme |
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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