Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 48
It took root, put forth green shoots, and grew up to be the large tree under which we old folks are now sitting.'
Who acts: It, we · What happens: take, put, grow up, be, sit · To what, where: root, green shoots, large tree
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 (It, 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 | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | advcl |
| 6 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shoots | amod |
| 8 | shoots | shoot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 put | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grew | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 grew | cc |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 grew | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 tree | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 tree | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tree | amod |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grew | advcl |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 sitting | obl |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 sitting | nsubj |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 folks | amod |
| 22 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 we | conj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 sitting | aux |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 sitting | advmod |
| 25 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 tree | acl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
| 27 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | It | root | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | green shoots | forth property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shoot=Goal | ||||
| 3 | grow up | past | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | the large tree | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | sit | present · progressive | we | the large tree | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under which=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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