Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 23
The roads crossed each other in the depths of the forest, and she no longer knew whither she should go! then there stood a thorn-bush; there was neither leaf nor flower on it, it was also in the cold winter season, and ice-flakes hung on the branches.
Who acts: roads, mother, leaf, forest · What happens: cross, know, go, stand, be, hang · To what, where: each, thorn bush, ice flakes, branches · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roads, mother, leaf, forest), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 roads | det |
| 2 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crossed | nsubj |
| 3 | crossed | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 3 crossed | obj |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 each | fixed |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 depths | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 depths | det |
| 8 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crossed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 forest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forest | det |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 depths | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 knew | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 knew | nsubj |
| 15 | no | no | ADV | _ | 16 longer | advmod |
| 16 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 knew | advmod |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crossed | parataxis |
| 18 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 go | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 go | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | aux |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 knew | ccomp |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 stood | advmod |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 stood | advmod |
| 25 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | advcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bush | det |
| 27 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bush | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 thorn | punct |
| 29 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stood | obj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 was | punct |
| 31 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 32 was | expl |
| 32 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crossed | parataxis |
| 33 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 34 leaf | cc:preconj |
| 34 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 was | nsubj |
| 35 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 36 flower | cc |
| 36 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 leaf | conj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 flower | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 season | punct |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 season | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 season | cop |
| 42 | also | also | ADV | _ | 47 season | advmod |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 season | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 season | det |
| 45 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 season | amod |
| 46 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 season | compound |
| 47 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 leaf | appos |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 flakes | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 flakes | cc |
| 50 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 flakes | compound |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 ice | punct |
| 52 | flakes | flake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 season | nmod |
| 53 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 52 flakes | acl |
| 54 | on | on | ADP | _ | 56 branches | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 branches | det |
| 56 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 hung | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | the roads | each | in the depths of the forest | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent each=Patient in depth=Topic | |||
| 2 | know | past | mother | long property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | should | mother | whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | mother not said here | a thorn bush | there | then | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bush=Stimulus | ||
| 5 | be | past | leaf nor flower on forest | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | forest | in the cold winter season | ice flakes nmod | tree rules | |||
| 7 | hang | participle | ice flakes not said here | the branches | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=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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