Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 1

Really, the largest green leaf in this country is a dock-leaf; if one holds it before one, it is like a whole apron, and if one holds it over one's head in rainy weather, it is almost as good as an umbrella, for it is so immensely large.

Who acts: largest green leaf, one, leaf · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: dock leaf, leaf, apron, head

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (largest green leaf, one, leaf), 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	Really	really	ADV	_	6 leaf	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Really	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 leaf	det
4	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 leaf	amod
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 leaf	amod
6	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leaf	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 country	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 country	det
9	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leaf	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 leaf	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 leaf	det
12	dock	dock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leaf	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 dock	punct
14	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 holds	punct
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 holds	mark
17	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 holds	nsubj
18	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 leaf	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 holds	obj
20	before	before	ADP	_	21 one	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 apron	nummod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 one	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 apron	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 apron	cop
25	like	like	ADP	_	28 apron	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 apron	det
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 apron	amod
28	apron	apron	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 holds	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 holds	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 holds	cc
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 holds	mark
32	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 holds	nsubj
33	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 holds	advcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 holds	obj
35	over	over	ADP	_	38 head	case
36	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 head	nmod:poss
37	's	's	PART	_	36 one	case
38	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 holds	obl
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 weather	case
40	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 weather	amod
41	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 head	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 good	punct
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 good	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 good	cop
45	almost	almost	ADV	_	47 good	advmod
46	as	as	ADV	_	47 good	advmod
47	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 holds	conj
48	as	as	ADP	_	50 umbrella	case
49	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 umbrella	det
50	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 good	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 large	punct
52	for	for	SCONJ	_	57 large	mark
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 large	nsubj
54	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 large	cop
55	so	so	ADV	_	57 large	advmod
56	immensely	immensely	ADV	_	57 large	advmod
57	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 good	conj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 leaf	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the largest green leaf in this country	a dock leaf			tree rules
2	hold a condition, not said to happen	present	one	leaf			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	is	present	leaf			like a one whole apron	tree rules
4	hold a condition, not said to happen	present	one	apron	one's head in rainy weather		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme over head=Location
5	is	present	leaf			as a umbrella; almost, good property	tree rules
6	is	present	leaf			immensely, large property	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/20/1/