Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 34
They afterwards came to a little house, made of branches and the bark of trees; a large wild apple-tree bent over it, as if it would shower down all its blessings on the roof, where roses were blooming.
Who acts: others, tree, roses · What happens: come, make, bend, shower down, bloom, bless · To what, where: large wild apple tree, little house, tree, blessings, roof
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, tree, roses), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 house | acl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 branches | case |
| 11 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bark | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bark | det |
| 14 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 branches | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 trees | case |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bark | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 tree | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tree | amod |
| 20 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tree | amod |
| 21 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tree | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 apple | punct |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 24 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 tree | acl |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 bent | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 shower | punct |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 shower | mark |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 shower | mark |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 shower | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 shower | aux |
| 32 | shower | shower | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | conj |
| 33 | down | down | ADP | _ | 32 shower | compound:prt |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 blessings | det:predet |
| 35 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 blessings | nmod:poss |
| 36 | blessings | blessing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 shower | obj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 roof | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 roof | det |
| 39 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 blessings | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 blooming | punct |
| 41 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 44 blooming | advmod |
| 42 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 blooming | nsubj |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 blooming | aux |
| 44 | blooming | bloom | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 roof | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | others = other | a large wild apple tree | a little house | afterwards property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | make | participle | a little house not said here | of branches and the bark of trees | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | bend | participle | a large wild apple tree not said here | tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Location | ||||
| 4 | shower down a condition, not said to happen | would | tree | tree's blessings | the roof | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme on roof=Destination | |||
| 5 | bloom | past · progressive | roses | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | bless | tree | the roof | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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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