Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 47
We watered the slips, and one of them was an Elderbush.
Who acts: We, one · What happens: water, be · To what, where: slips, Elderbush
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 (We, one), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 watered | nsubj |
| 2 | watered | water | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 slips | det |
| 4 | slips | slip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 watered | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Elderbush | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Elderbush | cc |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 Elderbush | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 one | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Elderbush | cop |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Elderbush | det |
| 12 | Elderbush | Elderbush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 watered | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | water | past | We | the slips | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent slip=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | one of slips | a Elderbush | 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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