Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 18
We are provided with a house from our birth, and the burdock forest is planted for our sakes!
What happens: provide, plant · To what, where: We, burdock forest
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: 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 | 3 provided | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 provided | aux:pass |
| 3 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 provided | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 birth | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 birth | nmod:poss |
| 9 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 house | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 planted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 planted | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 13 | burdock | burdock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forest | compound |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 planted | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 planted | aux:pass |
| 16 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 provided | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 sakes | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sakes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sakes | sake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 planted | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 provided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | present · passive | We | with a house from our birth | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | plant | present · passive | the burdock forest | for our sakes | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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