Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 62
In it I read that you were in warm lands where the coffee-tree grows.
Who acts: I, you, coffee tree · What happens: read, be, grow · To what, where: letter, warm lands
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 (I, you, coffee tree), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 it | case |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 read | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 read | nsubj |
| 4 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 lands | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 lands | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lands | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 lands | case |
| 9 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lands | amod |
| 10 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 read | obl |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 grows | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 13 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tree | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 coffee | punct |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grows | nsubj |
| 16 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lands | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past | I | letter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | you | warm lands | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | the coffee tree | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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