Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 45
It was the very same court-yard where we now are, and we stuck slips in the ground, and made a garden.'
Who acts: date, we · What happens: be, stick, make · To what, where: same court yard, slips, ground, garden
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 (date, we), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 yard | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 yard | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 yard | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 same | advmod |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 yard | amod |
| 6 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 yard | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 court | punct |
| 8 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 are | advmod |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 are | nsubj |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 are | advmod |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 yard | cop |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stuck | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stuck | cc |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 stuck | nsubj |
| 16 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 are | parataxis |
| 17 | slips | slip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stuck | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 ground | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ground | det |
| 20 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stuck | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 made | cc |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stuck | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 garden | det |
| 25 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 yard | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 yard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | date | the same court yard | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stick | past | we | slips | the ground | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent slip=Theme in ground=Destination | |||
| 3 | make | past | we not said here | a garden | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset garden=Product |
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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